Professor. Qipeng Yuan is the associate director of State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1992 and his Ph.D in Biochemical Engineering from Tianjin University in 2007. His research focuses on Isolation and extraction of bioactive compounds, Enzymatic bioconversion, Metabolic Engineering and synthetic biology. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed research and review papers on journals such as Nature Communications, Metabolic Engineering and ACS Synthetic Biology. He holds more than 50 patents, several of which have been commercialized.