Zhiwei Chen received his Bachelor’s degree in Science in
Biotechnology in 2004 and Master’s degree in Agriculture in Crop Genetics and
Breeding in 2007 from Nanjing Agricultural University (Nanjing, China). He is now
a Ph.D. student of Science in Microbiology (Microbiology, College of Life
Sciences) at Nanjing Agricultural University. Zhiwei Chen is mainly engaged in
research related to molecular mechanisms of resistance to abiotic stresses in
cereal crops, such as salt, low nitrogen, drought, and heat. He also works in
cereal crop breeding. From 2007 to present, he was promoted from instructor to assistant professor and then associate professor at the Biotechnology Research Institute of the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences. From 2011 to 2012, he worked as a researcher in the Department of Plant Sciences for the Bioeconomy at Rothamsted Research (Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK). From 2014 to 2015, he worked as a researcher in the Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology at Montana State University (Bozeman, MT, USA). His scientific output includes 44 publications, corresponding to 318 citations (h-index 10) (Scopus, 20 November 2023).
Prof. Dr. Chenghong Liu is a deputy director and a researcher
of the Institute of Biotechnology of the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural
Sciences, a postgraduate tutor at Shanghai Normal University and Shanghai Ocean
University, and concurrently serves as a director of the Shanghai Plant Physiology
Society, an executive director of the Shanghai Bioengineering Society, and a
member of the Shanghai Biomedical Industry. He holds social positions such as
director of the association and director of the National Food and Drug
Homogenous Industry Science and Technology Innovation Alliance. He graduated
with a PhD from the School of Pharmacy of the Second Military Medical
University, with an educational background covering agronomy, genetics, and
pharmacy. He has been engaged in new drug R&D for 7 years in an
internationally renowned biopharmaceutical company, serving as a senior
researcher and department management position. He has published more than 20
papers as the lead author and correspondent (the sum of SCI impact factors is
greater than 30), has been granted six national invention patents (two as first
inventor), and has presided over one sub-topic of the national key R&D plan
and four provincial and municipal scientific research projects. He presided over
and won one second prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award.
