Dr. Qiwei Qin is the professor and the dean of the College of Marine Sciences at the South China Agricultural University. He obtained a bachelor’s degree from Beijing Normal University in 1986, a master’s degree from Wuhan University Master of Science in 1991, and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Aquatic Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1994. Before he joined South China Agricultural University as a professor in 2016, he conducted research work in different universities or institutions, including Henan Normal University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Wales (UK), Japan International Science and Technology Exchange Center, Japan National Aquaculture Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and the Sun Yat-Sen University. He has been awarded National Outstanding Youth Fund winners, Chinese Academy of Sciences Outstanding Hundred Talents Program scholars, New Century 100 Million Project national-level candidates, and the fifth National Excellent Science and Technology Workers. He is a member of the China Ocean and Limnology Society and deputy director of the Fish Disease Professional Committee of the Chinese Fisheries Society. His research areas are marine molecular virology and functional genomics; marine fish cell and molecular immunology; and marine environmental microbiology and fermentation engineering.