Shaolan Yang is a professor at the College of Horticulture, Qingdao Agricultural University. She graduated from Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University in 2002 and received her Ph.D. from Zhejiang University in 2007. After that, she worked as a lecturer at the College of Horticulture, Qingdao Agricultural University from 2007 to 2009 and as an associate professor from 2009 to 2019 and officially became a professor in December 2019. She was a visiting scholar at Tennessee State University in the United States from 2018 to 2019. Her research interests include the postharvest engineering technology of horticultural plants and fruit quality regulation mechanisms. She has presided over and participated in 11 projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, and the Qingdao Comprehensive Experimental Station of the Vegetable Industry Technology System of Shandong Province. She has been involved in winning the third prize of the Shandong Science and Technology Progress Award, third prize of the Shandong Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award, first prize of the Qingdao Science and Technology Progress Award, and six authorized invention patents.