Qing-Jun Meng is a Professor of Chronobiology and a Versus Arthritis Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, the University of Manchester. He is the Theme Leader of the Chrono-Matrix research theme within the Wellcome Centre for Cell-Matrix Research. He is also the Director of Internationalisation in the School of Biological Sciences and was the co-founder and Academic Lead of the Biosciences International Summer School (BIO-SISS).

Qing-Jun (MD and PhD) started his post-doctoral training in 2003 at the University of Manchester on molecular mechanisms and pharmacological resetting of biological clocks. In 2009, Qing-Jun was awarded a MRC Career Development Award Fellowship on clocks, ageing and age-related diseases. In 2015, he was awarded an ARUK Senior Research Fellowship to continue his work into the roles of circadian clocks in health and disease of the musculoskeletal system.  In 2017, he was promoted to a Professor of Chronobiology.