Dr. Shuang-Jiang Liu is a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also a professor at Shandong University and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained his B.S. in 1984 at Hebei University (Baoding), his M.S. in 1987 at Zhejiang Agricultural University, and his Ph.D. in 1991 at Tsinghua University (Beijing). Dr. Liu completed his postdoc and worked as a visiting scholar in the United States of America, Germany, and Japan during 1995–2000. In 1991, he joined the Institute of Microbiology (Beijing), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and was promoted to professor in 2001. He served the Institute as deputy director-general from 2008–2013 and has been director-general since 2013. His research interests include the bacterial degradation of aromatic compounds, bacterial behavior in environments particularly chemotaxis, and microbial diversity in various environments. He is serving as the Editor of “Applied and Environmental Microbiology” (ASM), Editor of “Achieves of Microbiology”, and Associate Editor of “Microbes and Environments”.