Deguo Han has been serving as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Northeast Agricultural University, since September 2020. He obtained a Ph.D. in Agronomy from the School of Agronomy and Biotechnology at China Agricultural University in December 2010. In addition, his research focuses on the stress physiology and molecular biology of fruit trees, as well as on post-harvest storage, transportation, and processing.