Dr. Yuan Chen received his BEng in Chemical Engineering and MEng in Biochemical Engineering from Tsinghua University. He obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering at Yale University in 2005. He is currently a Professor at School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney. He joined the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore as an Assistant Professor in 2005. He was promoted to a tenured Associate Professor in 2010. He served as Head of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Division in NTU from July 2011 to June 2014. He received Young Scientist Awards by the Singapore National Academy of Science in 2011, inspirational teaching of Koh Boon Hwee award scholar in 2014, Excellence in Review Award for the journal Carbon in 2015, Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2016. He is currently associate editor for Carbon (Elsevier), editorial board member for Nanomaterials, and Heliyon (Elsevier).