Prof. Liang Liu received the B.Sc. degree of Science in Bioengineering from South-Central University for Nationalities, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree of Philosophy in Biochemical Engineering from South China University of Technology, in 2015. From 2012 to 2015, he was a Visiting Doctoral Student at School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University. From 2015 to 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and an Associate Researcher at Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2019, he has been a Professor at School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University. He primarily focuses on the discovery and mechanism of action of novel prokaryotic defense systems.