Lei Qiao is an Assistant Research Fellow and a Specially Funded Postdoctoral Fellow at the College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University. His research primarily focuses on intestinal health and its nutritional regulation, with particular interests in gut microbiota, intestinal barrier function, and nutritional interventions. He has authored or co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles in journals including Journal of Advanced Research, iMeta, Pharmacological Research, Animal Nutrition, npj Science of Food, Microbiology Spectrum, and Animals. His current h-index is 22.