Current Chinese Science

Dr. Hongbao Xin is currently a professor and Vice Director of the Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. He received his BS degree in 2011 and Ph.D degree in 2016 from the Sun Yat-Sen University. After graduation, he continued his research at the University of California, Berkeley and the National University of Singapore. He joined Jinan University in 2018. His research interests focus on biophotonics, such as optical manipulation and detection, bio-micromotor, nanoplasmonics, etc. He has published about 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, including Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Light: Science and Applications, Nano Letters, etc. He was awarded the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in Optics of China and the Distinguished Young Scholar by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province.

Dr. Tymish Y.Ohulchanskyy is a distinguished professor at the College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. After obtaining his Ph.D. in Optics and Laser Physics in 2001, he joined the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics (ILPB) at the State University of New York, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA. Dr. Ohulchanskyy’s research broadly involves photophysics of organic and inorganic materials in conjunction with their applications in biophotonics. The main focus is on the development of molecular and nanoparticular photoactive agents for targeted optical/multimodal bioimaging and light induced therapy. Dr.Ohulchanskyy has published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, including Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA. He has one U.S. patent granted and licensed.

Dr.Zong Jie Cui obtained his PhD in 1989. He is currently working as a professor at the Institute of Cell Biology, Beijing Normal University, China. His research interests include Photodynamic action; Photobiology; Bioluminescence; G protein coupled receptors; Pancreatic acinar cells; Pancreatic stellate cells; Salivary glands; Hepatocytes; Neutrophils; Mast cells; Calcium oscillations; Genetically encoded protein photosensitizers; and Sulphonated aluminium phthalocyanine.

Dr. Qiuqiang Zhan is currently a Professor of optics at the South China Normal University, China. He received a B.S. in Optics from Shandong University, China, and performed his doctoral research in the Optical Engineering department at Zhejiang University, China. He had visiting research in Lund University, Sweden and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. His research interests mainly include upconversion nanoparticle bio-/nano- photonics and optical imaging. He has co- authored over 50 international journal publications and 15 patents. He has won some awards for his creative work, including Young Innovation Award and Distinguished Young Scholars.

Dr. Guanying Chen has been a full professor since 2013 at School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology. His interests include lanthanide luminescence, upconversion, biophotonics, and nanomedicine. He published more than 100 peer- reviewed papers and served as editorial board member or guest editor for Scientific Reports, Nanomaterials, Crystals, Chinese Journal of Luminescence, and Theranostics, etc.

Dr. Junle Qu is a Professor in the Center for Biomedical Photonics and the College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering at Shenzhen University. His current research interests include nonlinear optical imaging, fluorescence lifetime imaging, super-resolution optical imaging and their applications in biomedicine, imaging guided optical therapy. He has published more than 270 papers in peer reviewed journals such as Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Chemical Reviews, Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials, Chem, Nano Letter, Optics Letters etc. He is the Fellow of SPIE and the director of Biomedical Photonics Committee of Chinese Optical Society. He serves in the editorial boards of JIOHS, Frontiers of Optoelectronics etc.

Dr. Syed Shoaib Ahmad Shah is currently working in University of Science and Technology of China and also Assistant Professor in The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. In 2018, he earned his Ph.D degree from Chongqing University, China. He has credited several peer reviewed published articles in well-known journals like Angew. Chem., Current Medicinal Chemistry, Mini- Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry, JPCC, JMCA, Electrochimica Acta, Chemistry-A European Journal etc. He has also been awarded out-standing researcher award from Chongqing University in 2018.