Yanwei Jia received her PhD, MSc and BSc degrees in Physics from the National University of Singapore (2006) and Hunan University in China (2002 and 1996) respectively. After PhD graduation, Jia had worked as a Research Fellow in the National University of Singapore in 2006 before she moved to Brandeis University in the USA, working as a Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Associate and Research Scientist chronically (2006-2012). She is currently an assistant professor in the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI (AMSV), leading a group working on multidisciplinary research based on microfluidics for biological/chemical applications, especially in the field of biomedical science. She won the Innovation Prize in 2008 given by the International Organization for Biological Crystallization. She also won the Innovation Award in 2019 on the 9th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Optofluidics given by Nature Communications and 1OO International Society.