Prof. Yin Li received his PhD in Fermentation Engineering at Jiangnan University in China in 2000. He then worked in Wagening Centre for Food Science (the Netherlands) and University College Cork (Ireland) as postdoctoral researchers. In 2006 he was appointed as Professor by the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2013 he was appointed as Visiting Professor by Cornell University.
He is a member of the International Advisory Council of Global Bioeconomy Summit, Chair/Co-chair of Metabolic Engineering Summit, and serving as editor or editorial board member of Microbiology, Microbial Cell Factories, Biotechnology Journal, Industrial Biotechnology, and Food Bioscience. He and his colleagues have published more than 130 papers that have been cited more than 4000 times (current H index 37), and he is inventor of more than 30 patents.