Microbiologist. He worked as a professor at the Aix Marseille University in France, and now at the Institute
of Hydrobiology (IHB), CAS while serving as the director of the Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, IHB, CAS
since 2016. His research areas include microbiology, genetics, cell biology, and synthetic biology, using
model cyanobacteria to investigate the molecular mechanisms of cell growth, division and development. His
studies also involve synthetic biology approaches for the development of technologies for cyanobacterial
bloom control and other potential applications.