Xiao Liu, a joint PhD candidate at South China University of Technology and Wageningen University, is an assistant researcher at the Future Food Science Center of Jiangnan University. He mainly engages in research on green biomanufacturing of plant-based foods and the exploration and utilization of alternative protein resources. In the past five years, he has published over 30 high-level research papers, 25 of which are as the first or corresponding author (17 in the first quartile of SCI), and has participated in the publication of one English monograph; he has applied for 6 invention patents; and has presided over 6 scientific research projects, including the National Natural Science Fund for Young Scholars, a sub-project of the National Key Research and Development Plan, and the Jiangsu Province Natural Science Fund for Young Scholars.