Professor Fei Zhou received her Ph.D. degree in Molecular Plant Physiology from the University of Potsdam and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany in 2008. From 2008 to 2010, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany. Since 2010, she has been a faculty member at the College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, conducting research at the National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement. She has been promoted from associate professor to professor and doctoral supervisor. Her research areas include 1. plastid (chloroplast) biology: chloroplast gene transcription, RNA editing, chloroplast development; functional analysis of PPR family proteins; 2. chloroplast/plast genetic engineering (synthetic biology): development and optimization of chloroplast genetic transformation technology in crops such as rice, and the application of chloroplasts as a platform for plant synthetic biology; 3.insect-resistant rice design and breeding.