Lijin Tian received his Ph.D. in Biophysics at Wageningen University& Research in 2013, after two postdoc training experiences at the Vrije University Amsterdam and Leiden University. In 2019, he started his group at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing). Since then, he has been a professor in the Key Laboratory of Photobiology (Photosynthesis Research Center). His research aims to understand the regulation and ultrafast kinetics of photosynthetic light harvesting in various photosynthetic species and eventually optimize photosynthesis through the synthetic biology method. So far, he has published more than 30 scientific articles on photosynthesis.