**About the Editor**

**You-Jin Jeon** is a Professor at the School of Marine Biomedical Science at Jeju National University in South Korea. He received his BS, MS, and PhD from Pukyong National University, and conducted his postdoctoral research studies at Department of Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, and at Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta in Canada. Prof. Jeon has been serving in the Korea Society of Marine Biotechnology as President, and currently holds an industrial position as Technical Director of Aqua Green Tech Co. Ltd. He is working with marine biomass to develop functional food materials and cosmeceuticals for human use. He has published more than 500 international and 120 Korean domestic articles, as well as more than 100 patents. He has a total citation number of 21,604, as well as an 84 h-index and a 400 i10-index. Since 2016, these have been 16,291, 62, and 351. Now, he is a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.
