Dr. Limei Qiu received her B.Sc. in 2000 from Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China. She earned her M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. She served as a visiting scholar at The George Washington University in 2010–2011. She is now an Associate Professor at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research topics mainly include marine biology, invertebrate immunology, genetics and genomics, phylogenetics and evolution, molluscan aquaculture, and breeding.