Professor Jian Chen received his PhD from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto. Following this he joined the State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences where he has been focusing on exploring biosensors for single-cell analysis, enabling high-throughput characterizations of single-cell electrical, mechanical and proteomic properties. He contributed to the publication of approximately 90 journal papers and filed the applications of 40 patents. Among other honours, Professor Chen was the recipient of National Natural Science Foundation of China for Excellent Young Scholars, Excellent Member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing NOVA Star. Among other services, Professor Chen has served as committee members of micro/nano device and system division of MEMS & NEMS society of China and life science instrument division of the Chinese society of biotechnology.