Dr. Kira Xiaohuan Sun joined BGI Research, a not-for-profit scientific research institute under the BGI Group, as a senior researcher in 2017 after obtaining her Ph.D. of Biotechnology in Ghent University, Belgium. She has engaged in the development of novel high-throughput metagenome sequencing technologies and research in environmental microbiome genome study, plant molecular biology. Kira has several first-author publications in leading scientific journals such as Nature Communications, Plant Biotechnology Journal, and Journal of Fungi through international collaborations. She currently acts as the Field Application Scientist supporting the applications of BGI spatial omics innovation STOmics® in Australia and New Zealand.