Dr. Zhihao Jia is an associate professor at the Soochow University, Suzhou, China, and a post-doctoral researcher at the Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States. He received his B.Sc. in biological sciences from Sun Yat-Sen University in 2013 and his Ph.D. in marine biology from the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2018. He conducted visiting and postdoctoral research at the School of Animal Science, Purdue University, USA, from 2016 to 2021. In recent years, he has mainly used mice as models to study muscle development, regeneration and metabolism, and fat development and metabolism. In the past five years, he has published over 60 SCI papers in journals such as Advanced Science, Elife, Molecular Therapy, Bioactive Materials, and EBioMedicine. He serves as an editor and reviewer for many journals. His research interest is to understand how lipid metabolism in skeletal muscle and adipocytes contributes to/prevents obesity and diabetes.