Prof. Shuilin He received his Bachelor's degree in Agronomy from Jiangxi Agriculture University in 1988, his Master's degree in Agronomy from Huazhong Agriculture University in 1991, and then worked four years as an assistant and four years as a lecturer at Fujian Agriculture University. He worked from October 1996 to January 1998 at Kyungpook National University as a visiting scholar, and received his Ph.D. in Agronomy from Fujian Agriculture University in 1998. After he received his Ph.D, he worked for four years as an associate professor in the College of Crop Science at Fujian Agriculture University, and then moved to the College of Life Science and was promoted to associate dean of the College of Life Science. He worked there as a full-time professor of plant stress physiology, focusing on the pepper. In 2008, he visited Eulgem Thomas’ lab at the University of California, Riverside for four months as a visiting scholar. In 2011, he moved back to the College of Crop Science. Currently, Dr. He is an associate dean of the College of Crop Science and the thesis advisor for Ph.D. students studying the functional genomics of pepper stress physiology. His research interests include the functional genomics of pepper stress physiology.