**Jing Xu**

Jing Xu obtained her BS and MS degrees from Hainan University. Since 2006, she has carried out doctoral research with Professor Huashi Guan at the College of Medicine and Pharmaceutics, Ocean University of China. Since 2007, she has continued doctoral research in the group of Prof. Peter Proksch and received her PhD degree in 2010 at Heinrich-Heine-Universitat D ¨ usseldorf, Germany, ¨ where she sparked an interest in mangrove microbial natural products with a particular focus on bioactive molecules, which has continued to this day. She joined the faculty of Hainan University after her graduation, where she is currently a Professor on Pharmaceutical Chemistry. She undertook a postdoctoral appointment at Nanjing University simultaneously, with Prof. Renxiang Tan, during 2011–2014. She spent 2016 working with Prof. Dr. Peter Leadley at the University of Cambridge as visiting scholar.
