Dr. Liuyang Diao was Head of Shanghai R&D Center at Meihua Group, and Senior Director of R&D at BioSense before co-founding Cataya in 2021. Prior to that, he served as Project Manager at Shanghai R&D Center of Industrial Biotechnology. Dr. Diao has more than 10 years of experience in industrial biotechnology and successfully developed several robust and highly productive microbial strains and took them to biomanufacturing at commercial scale. He was selected as Outstanding Young Talent by Hebei Province in recognition of his excellence. Dr. Diao holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Anhui University and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Microbiology from Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Research Center Jülich, Germany.