WANG Yu, Ph.D., Principal Investigator and Doctoral Supervisor. Dr. Wang earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Shandong University and his doctorate from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2016, he joined the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, where he served as Assistant Researcher and Associate Researcher before being exceptionally promoted to Principal Investigator in 2022. His primary research focuses on the design and engineering of microbial strains (cell factories) for the utilization and bioconversion of C1 feedstocks. Dr. Wang has received numerous accolades, including selection as an Excellent Young Scientists Fund recipient by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, appointment as an inaugural member of the Specially Appointed Research Positions at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and membership in the CAS Youth Innovation Promotion Association. He has also been recognized as one of MIT Technology Review's “35 Innovators Under 35” in the Asia-Pacific, with the DaSilva Award from the Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry, and the Lun Shiyi Education Fund Outstanding Young Scholar Award. Dr. Wang has published over 50 papers as first or corresponding author in journals such as Nature Communications, Trends in Biotechnology, and Metabolic Engineering, and has filed more than 40 PCT and Chinese invention patents. He currently leads projects funded by the CAS Strategic Priority Research Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China Excellent Young Scientists Fund, and the General Program funding. Additionally, Dr. Wang holds roles as a Standing Committee Member of the Tianjin Youth Federation; a member of the Youth Committee of the Biochemical Engineering Division of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China; a committee member of both the Youth Work Committee and C1 Biotechnology Committee of the Chinese Society of Biotechnology; a member of the Microbial Genetics Committee of the Genetics Society of China; a Council Member of the Tianjin Society for Microbiology; and Vice Chair of the CAS Youth Innovation Promotion Association’s Life Sciences Branch.