Haijin Mou is a Professor and Vice Dean at the College of Food Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China. He has a strong academic background, holding a B.S. in Microbiology from Shandong University (1993), a Ph.D. in Food Science and Engineering from Ocean University of China (2003), and having served as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Reading, UK (2005–2006). With over 25 years of tenure at his alma mater since 1996, his research covers areas like bacterial and phage-borne enzymes degrading polysaccharides, marine bioactive oligosaccharides, food pathogen identification methods, TMA production in seafood via microbial metabolism, bioenergy from marine algae and industrial wastes, and comprehensive utilization of aquatic processing by-products. He teaches Marine Microbial Engineering and Aquatic Food Microbiology. He is honored as a New Century Excellent Talent by the Ministry of Education. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Ocean University of China and Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.