Dr Yunlong Zhao joined the Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) and with a joint appointment at the National Physical Laboratory (UK) as the Senior Research Scientist since October 2018. Prior to this appointment, he carried out his postdoctoral research and joint doctoral research under the advice of Prof. Charles Lieber at Harvard University (2014-2018), where he conducted research in nano-semiconductor devices and flexible electronics for electrophysiology and nano-bio interface. He also received his undergraduate and postgraduate research training at Wuhan University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Liqiang Mai and Prof. Qingjie Zhang (2009-2014), with focus on electrochemical energy storage and electrochemical probing.