Chunhai Fan obtained his B.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Biochemistry at Nanjing University in 1996 and 2000. After his postdoctoral research at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), he joined the faculty at Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2004. He is now Professor and Chief of the Division of Physical Biology at SINAP and the Bioimaging Center of Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF). He is also an adjunct professor of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. He is a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and an elected fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). He serves as an Associate Editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and serves on the editorial board of over ten international journals. Dr. Fan has published ~300 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and he was recognized as High Cited Researchers in 2014-2106 by Thomson Reuters.