Ronglian Xing is a professor at the School of Life Sciences, Yantai University. She graduated from Liaoning Normal University with a bachelor’s degree in 2000, received her master’s from Dalian Ocean University in 2003 and her Ph.D. from Dalian University of Technology in 2007, and then joined Yantai University in the same year. She was also a visiting scholar at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand from 2018 to 2019. Her main research interests include marine biological environmental engineering, algae biotechnology, and waste treatment and resource utilization.