Editorial Team

  • Yue (Jeff) Xu

    Yue (Jeff) Xu, a former senior research fellow of NASA from 2002 to 2006, is the founder of YoungerUSA LLC, Xuyue (Beijing) Sci. & Tech. Co. Ltd., Xuyue BioFunction Institute, Zhongguancun Xuyue NMT Industrial Alliance, and NMT International Alliance. He developed and commercialized NMT from the 'vibrating probe' concept proposed by the US scientist, Dr. Lionel Jaffe of the Marine Biological Laboratory. Jeff’s work with NMT has helped thousands of scientists across the world advance their research with more than 700 papers published in various fields in the past 20 years. He is now playing a leading role in applying NMT into pharmaceuticals, health care, environmental protection, food security, anti-epidemic and epidemic prevention, new materials, new energy discovery, modern agricultural practices, and other fields of practical applications.

  • Yunqi (Magee) Liu

    Secretary-General of Zhongguancun Xuyue NMT Industrial Alliance

    Deputy Chairman of the Alliance Standardization Technical Committee

    Senior Certified Engineer of Non-invasive Micro-test Technology (NMT)

    He is one of the main contributors to the "international leading level" achievement "Non-invasive Micro-test Technology and Its Application", and he edited NMT books such as "NMT 101 Questions" and "NMT Proceedings" (2014-2021). He is known as the "walking NMT textbook".

  • Sergey Shabala

    Professor Sergey Shabala received his PhD in Plant Physiology from the Belarusian Institute of Experimental Botany in 1989. From 1995 to 1998, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has been working at the University of Tasmania since 1998 and was awarded a tenured professorship in 2011. He is currently Director of the Adversity Physiology Laboratory at the University of Tasmania.

    Professor Sergey Shabala is mainly engaged in the study of stress response and transmembrane transport mechanism of higher plants, and is the technical co-founder of Plant Non-Invasive Micro-Test Technology (MIFE).

  • Marshall Porterfield

    Professor at Purdue University

    Former NASA representative on the National Science and Technology Council Life Sciences Subcommittee

    Advisor to the Office of the President of the United States, Office of Science and Technology Policy

    Fellow of the Institute of Medicine and Bioengineering

    President of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology