Professor Yi Zhang, working in the College of Food Science and Technology, Guangdong Ocean University, grew up in China and received his Bachelor's degree from the Ocean University of China in 2001. After he obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Oceanology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007, he worked firstly as lecturer and associate professor at Dalian Jiaotong University until 2014, and then as associate professor and full professor successively at Guangdong Ocean University and its Shenzhen Research Institute until the present. In the meantime, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Dalian University of Technology from 2011 to 2016, a visiting professor in Prof. Stephanie Grond’s laboratory at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, in 2012-2013, and a visiting professor in Prof. William Gerwick’s laboratory at the University of California, San Diego, in 2018-2019. He mainly works on marine natural products from marine microorganisms and seaweeds, as well as their bioactivities. He has published more than 100 research papers, including 30 in SCI-indexed international journals, as first or corresponding author.