Guanghui Ma is Professor and Director of State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Having obtained her Ph.D degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, she started her academic career at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology as Assistant Professor (1994). She moved to Institute of Process Engineering, CAS as a Full Professor in 2001. She was selected as an academician of CAS in 2021. Her awards include Outstanding Contribution Award from Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB) and the Second-class prize of National Invention Award.