Prof. Dr. Jiankang Liu received his B.Sc. from Xi’an Jiaotong University and his Ph.D. in medical science from the Okayama University School of Medicine, Japan. He completed his post-doctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Bruce Ames at the University of California, Berkeley, and worked as part of the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley, the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, the University of California at Irvine, the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and the Shanghai Institute for Nutritional Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is a Professor at the University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Qingdao and Xi’an Jiaotong University in Xi’an, China. His research interests include molecular and cellular mechanisms of aging, stress, and age-associated diseases, with a focus on redox signaling and mitochondrial metabolism.