Cao Ling currently serves as an associate professor and research scientist in the School of Oceanography at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). She completed her Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and worked at Stanford University before she joined SJTU. Growing up on a family fish farm in China and trained as an agronomist and environmental scientist, Ling has focused on interdisciplinary research at the interface between sustainable aquaculture and fisheries management and environmental conservation. She has published extensively on sustainable seafood production in high-profile journals such as Nature, Science, and Proceedings of National Academy of Science (PNAS).
