Yejun Han earned his PhD degree in Biochemical Engineering in 2008 from the Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Master degree in Microbiology in 2004 from Nanjing Agricultural University. He was a postdoctoral scholar in University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (2008-2010) and North Carolina State University (2010-2013). He joined the Institute of Process Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013. He mainly conducts basic and applied research on enzyme catalysis and biosynthesis engineering, involving enzyme, microbial metabolic engineering and biosynthesis, biological fixation and conversion of carbon-containing gases, and bioprocessing of organic waste. So far, he has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers in the field of bioengineering, he served as an editorial board member of Applied and Environmental Microbiology. In 2017, he won the Outstanding Contribution Award of the third "Min Enze Energy and Chemical Award".

1. Caihong Weng, Xiaowei Peng, Yejun Han*. Depolymerization and conversion of lignin to value-added bioproducts by microbial and enzymatic catalysis. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 2021. 14:84, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-021-01934-w.

2. Ruohao Tang, Caihong Weng, Xiaowei Peng*, Yejun Han*. Metabolic engineering of Cupriavidus necator H16 for improved chemoautotrophic growth and PHB production under oxygen-limiting conditions. Metabolic Engineering. 2020. 61:11-23.

3. Hong Su, Ruohao Tang, Xiaowei Peng, Yejun Han*. Corrosion behavior and mechanism of carbon steel influenced by interior deposit microflora of an in-service pipeline. Bioelectrochemistry. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2019.107406.

4. Xiaojing Jia, Yejun Han*. The extracellular endo-β-1,4-xylanase with multidomain from the extreme thermophile Caldicellulosiruptor lactoaceticus is specific for insoluble xylan degradation. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 2019.  10.1186/s13068-019-1480-1.

5. Xiaojing Jia, Yejun Han*. Simultaneous biosynthesis of (R)-acetoin and ethylene glycol from D-xylose through in vitro metabolic engineering. Metabolic Engineering Communications. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mec.2018.e00074.

6. Xiaowei Peng, Yejun Han*. Sequential processing with fermentative Caldicellulosiruptor kronotskyensis and chemolithoautotrophic Cupriavidus necator for converting rice straw and CO2 to polyhydroxybutyrate. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 2018. 10.1002/bit.26578.