Prof. Chaoyong Yang received his PhD from University of Florida in 2006 and conducted his postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley from 2006 to 2007. In 2008, he joined Xiamen University where he is now the Lu Jiaxi Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemical Biology. He was the recipient of a CAPA Distinguished Faculty Award in 2012, a National Outstanding Young Investigator Award in 2013, a Chinese Young Analyst Award in 2015, and a Chinese Chemical Society–Royal Society of Chemistry Young Chemist Award in 2016. He is the Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and associate editor of ACS Applied Bio Materials. His current research is particularly focused on molecular engineering, molecular recognition, high throughput evolution, single-cell analysis and microfluidics.