Baishan Fang is a distinguished professor of Minjiang Scholars at Xiamen University. He is the founding director of the Xiamen Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology. He received his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering from Zhejiang University in 1982 and Tianjin University in 2000, respectively. He then studied at the University of Stuttgart from 1991 to 1993, at the German Center for Biotechnology Research from 2000 to 2001, and visited the University of Washington as a senior researcher in December 2018. His research interests include synthetic biology and biomolecular machines, directed evolution and biocatalysis; biotechnology process development and optimization, in vitro cultivation, and functional development of intestinal flora. He was the dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering (formerly the School of Chemical Engineering) of Huaqiao University and the deputy director of the Professional Committee on Modeling and Control of Biochemical Processes of the Chinese Society for Microbiology. He is currently a member of the Professional Committee of Enzyme Engineering of the Chinese Society for Microbiology, a standing director of the Industrial Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Branch of the Chinese Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and a member of the Professional Committee of Synthetic Biology of the Chinese Society for Bioengineering.