Xiaojing Ma graduated with a B.Sc. from the School of Life Sciences at Lanzhou University in 2007 and received her Ph.D. from the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology at Shandong University in 2012. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology. Her main research areas include microbial or plant secondary metabolites, biopharmaceuticals, and other related fields.