Mingfei Pan received his Bachelor’s (2006), Master’s (2009), and Ph.D. (2012) degrees from Tianjin University of Science and Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the same institution from 2013 to 2015. Mingfei Pan is currently an associate professor at the of Food Engineering and Biotechnology College, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, where he started his teaching career as a lecturer in 2015. He teaches food nutrition, experimental design and statistical analysis, as well as biometric and experimental design methods. In addition, Mingfei Pan received the 2015 Innovation Award from the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology.