Dr. GAN Renyou received his medical bachelor degree from Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU), China, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), HK, China. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China, a Chief Scientist at the Institute of Urban Agriculture (IUA), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China, a Principal Scientist at Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Food Science & Technology, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. He will join the Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Faculty of Science, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), HK, as an Assistant Professor and Presidential Young Scholar soon. His research mainly focuses on plant-based foods, probiotics, gut microbiome and human nutrition/health, and related work has generated more than 200 SCIE-indexed publications, including more than 130 papers as the first/corresponding author and more than 20 ESI highly cited papers. He has also filed more than 30 Chinese patents, with 20 of them awarded. According to Google Scholar, his publications have been cited more than 19,000 times, with an H-index of 70. He serves as the editorial board member of several food and nutrition-related international journals, including Current Research in Biotechnology (Executive Editor), Fermentation (Section Editor-in-Chief), Frontiers in Nutrition (Section Associate Editor), International Journal of Food Science and Technology (Honorary Associate Editor), Nutrients/Antioxidants/Foods/npj Science of Food/iMeta/Discover Food (Editorial Board members). He has been selected as the Clarivate “Highly Cited Researcher” (Agricultural Sciences) in recent three years (2021-2023) and the Stanford University “World Top 2% Scientists” (Food Science/Nutrition & Dietetics) in recent two years (2022-2023).