Dr. Zhizhai Liu received the Ph.D. degree in Crop Genetics and Breeding from Southwest University (SWU) in 2008. He is an Associate Professor at SWU since Jul 2008. From Sep 2008 to Apr 2011, He conducted his postdoctoral research at the Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Beijing, China). And then he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Texas A&M AgriLife Research (Lubbock, Texas, USA) from May 2014 to Jun 2015. He won the Excellent Paper Award of Chinese Sci-Tech Journals in 2016 (China Association for Science and Technology, the 1st session). His research interests mainly focus on collection, identification, evaluation, and utilization of plant germplasm resources, and QTL/gene discovery and the further functional dissection.