Song Zhang is currently a Ph.D. student at Kangwon National University, Korea. He is actively working on phage therapy. Recently, he was also involved in the discovery of efflux pump inhibitors and beta-lactamase inhibitors. He published an article entitled Advances in the discovery of efflux pump inhibitors as novel potentiators to control antimicrobial-resistant pathogens.

Xinyu Liao is a distinguished researcher at the Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. She has hosted/participated in more than 10 scientific research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Subproject of the National Key Research and Development Program, and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. She has obtained ten authorized invention patents and three international patents. She won the first prize of the China Industry–University–Research Institute Cooperative Innovation Achievement Award. Her research is on nonthermal technology and food microbiology.

Tian Ding is a professor and deputy director at the Institute of Food Engineering at Zhejiang University, China. His research interests include foodborne pathogens, nonthermal technology, and microbial risk assessment. He is an associate editor of Food Research International and an editorial board member of Food Control, the Journal of Food Protection, and Food Science and Human Wellness. He is also a committee member of the Youth Council of the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology (CIFST) and a member of the International Association of Food Protection (IAFP) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). To date, he has undertaken more than ten national and provincial research projects and has received four provincial scientific and technological awards.

Juhee Ahn is currently a professor of medical biomaterials engineering at Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea. He received his Ph.D. in food science from the University of Missouri—Columbia, USA (2003), and has continued his work as a post-doctoral research assistant at the Food Microbiology Lab at the University of Missouri (2003–2004). He also has worked in the Food Safety and Engineering Lab at Ohio State University (2004–2006). He was a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland (2012–2013) and at Zhejiang University (2016–2017). His primary research field is microbial pathogenesis, including mechanistic studies of antibiotic resistance, bacterial infection, and bacteriophage control.