Jingyuan, a Systems Medicine professor at the University Medical Centre Groningen in the Netherlands, earned her BSc in Biochemistry in China. She later obtained an MSc in bioinformatics from Wageningen University in 2003 and a PhD cum laude from the University of Groningen in 2007. Since joining the University Medical Centre Groningen in 2008, her research focuses on multi-dimensional "omics" integrative analysis, exploring the genetics, genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics of complex diseases.