Prof. Dr. Jianren Ye has been a professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, China, since 2018. He joined Nanjing Forestry University in 1985 as a lecturer and became Associate Professor in 1991 and Professor in 1996. He served as the Vice-Principal of the Nanjing Forestry University from 2014 to 2017 and is the Chairman of the Forest Pathology Branch of the Chinese Society of Forestry. His research focuses on forest pathology, the prevention and control of major forest diseases, and forest microbes.