Hejun Lu received his B.S. degree in Agronomy from Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China, in 2009. He received his M.S. degree in Crop Germplasm Resources from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing, China, in 2014 and his Ph.D. in Agronomy and Biotechnology from Liege University, Liege, Belgium, in 2019. He also completed his post-doctoral research at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, from 2020 to 2023. He is an associate researcher at the Bio-Breeding Institute of Xianghu Laboratory. His research interests include genomics, genetics, and crop breeding.