Di Jiang went to Beijing Medical University (now PKUHSC), and then St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. He has a PhD in Genetics from the George Washington University. He studied molecular biology and immune system development in NIAID, NIH for his PhD thesis. He studied developmental genetics in NICHD, NIH and UCSB as a post-doctoral researcher. Di was a principle investigator in the Sars Center at University of Bergen, Norway, where his group studied cell biology of morphogenesis. From 2015-16, he was an editor at Cell Research in Shanghai. From 2017-2020, he edited for PLOS Biology in San Francisco. Currently he is a senior editor at Science editing papers in molecular biology, synthetic biology, biotechnology development.