Prof. Luo is currently an professor at the Center for Synthetic Biochemistry, Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2018. Before joining the SIAT, he was a postdoc fellow with Prof. Jay Keasling in the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences at University of California, Berkeley. He completed his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Peter Schultz at The Scripps Research Institute, USA, working on the biosynthesis of small and macro-molecular therapeutics. He has focused on the biosynthesis of natural products and their analogues. His research group is interested in pathway engineering and enzyme evolution, with the emphasis on developing novel synthetic biology methods and high-throughput automation. He has co-authored >20 scientific papers. He has delivered many presentations in conferences and research institutions. He also served as the editorial board member of BMC Biotechnology.