Rao Zhiming, a distinguished professor and doctoral supervisor, focuses primarily on research areas encompassing industrial microbial breeding, microbial metabolic engineering, and synthetic biology. He has provided his services as a member of the China Fermentation Engineering Expert Technical Committee and the China Amino Acid Expert Technical Committee. Furthermore, he took up the roles of Deputy Director of the Biofeed Technology Committee in the China Feed Industry Association, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, and Editorial Board Member of illustrious journals such as Amino Acids, Fermentation, and Systems Microbiology and Biotechnology. Moreover, with over 120 SCI papers as the primary author in authoritative journals like Nat Commun, Sci Adv, Adv Mater, Nuclear Acids Res, ACS Cat, etc., he boasts a repertoire of 14 papers with IF scores surpassing 10.