Involved in Biology since she first entered college, she received a doctorate at the University of Toronto before returning to Taiwan to teach graduate courses at Ts'ing Hua National University. Later she began research into the proper handling of agricultural produce after harvesting.
錢明賽自加拿大多倫多大學取得植物學博士學位後，即束裝回國，先任職於清華大學分子生物研究所，現在食品工業研究所主持「農產品收穫後處理」的研究工作。