Dr Run Zhang is a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland (AIBN UQ). He received his PhD of Analytical Chemistry from Dalian University of Technology in 2012. He worked at Macquarie University as Postdoc (2012) and independent MQ Research Fellow (2013–15). He joined AIBN UQ in 2016 and received ARC DECRA (2017–19) and NHMRC Emerging Leadership (2020-24). He now leads a Sensing and Imaging Research Group at AIBN, UQ, working on the development of responsive molecules/nanomaterials for biosensing and imaging, early disease detection and treatment, food/agricultural analysis.