Dayong Jin is a chair professor at Southern University of Science and Technology (2019-present). He did his PhD in 2007 at Macquarie University. He moved to the University of Technology Sydney in 2015 to direct the Institute for Biomedical Materials & Devices (IBMD) and was promoted to Distinguished Professor in 2017. His research has been in the physical, engineering and interdisciplinary sciences, with expertise covering biomedical optics, nanotechnology, microscopy, diagnostics and automation devices. Prof Jin is the winner of the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Interdisciplinary Scientific Research in 2015, the Australian Academy of Science John Booker Medalist in 2017, and the Prime Minister’s Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year 2017.