Mingfeng Cao

Dr. Mingfeng Cao, PhD, is the Minjiang distinguished professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, the director of the Institute of Bioengineering, and an honorary research fellow of the Tan Kah Kee Innovation Laboratry at the Xiamen Laboratory, China. He was awarded his PhD from the Nankai University in 2011, and between 2011 and 2013 worked as a research associate at the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He completed postdoctoral studies at Iowa State University, USA and was a research scientist at the University of Illinois from 2018 to 2021. His research focuses on the development of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering strategies to establish microbial cell factories for value-added and green chemical production. Dr. Cao has published over 60 journal articles and holds 10 patents. He also serves as the editor-in-chief of Biotechnology Reports and the associate editor for journals such as Microbial Cell Factories and Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts.