Dr. Xiaoting Zheng is an Associate Research Fellow who obtained her PhD from Ghent University, Belgium, and currently serves as Deputy Leader and Academic Lead of an institute-level innovation team at the South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences. Her research focuses on green and sustainable health management of aquatic animals, particularly microecology-based aquaculture systems, immune responses under environmental stress, and the application of plant-derived functional compounds in intestinal health regulation. She has led five research projects at the provincial/ministerial, municipal, and institutional levels and participated in one National Key Research and Development Program of China (14th Five-Year Plan) and one provincial science and technology project. She has published 35 scientific papers, including 25 SCI-indexed articles (9 in JCR Q1 journals), holds two Chinese invention patents, one Luxembourg invention patent, and two registered software copyrights, and serves as a Young Editorial Board Member of Progress in Fishery Sciences.