Hong Kong Baptist University

Scientia Professor Justin Gooding graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons) from Melbourne University before spending two years working for ICI Research on explosives. He then obtained a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and received post-doctoral training at the Institute of Biotechnology at Cambridge University. He returned to Australia in 1997 as a Vice-Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales. He was promoted to full professor in 2006 and Scientia Professor in 2011. He is currently a founding co-Director of the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, Node Leader for The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology and Deputy Head of the School of Chemistry. Before being appointed as the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of ACS Sensors, he served on the editorial board of the Analyst, The Australian Journal of Chemistry and several other research journals. He leads an interdisciplinary research group of 40 people with students and post-doctoral fellows gaining expertise in areas as diverse as surface chemistry, electrochemistry, analytical chemistry, optical physics, advanced microscopy, surface characterisation, cell biology and nanofabrication.

Dr. Fun Man Fung is an Assistant Professor at the School of Chemistry, University College Dublin, Ireland. He earned his postgraduate degrees from the National University of Singapore and the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Dr. Fung is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland (FICI) and a Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (FYAE). He is the Founding Chair of the ACS International Chemical Sciences Chapter in Singapore and serves as an ACS Career Consultant. Additionally, Dr. Fung is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Chemical Education and is serving two terms on the Early-Career Advisory Board of JACS Au (2024–2026). In his spare time, he aspires to become a better Jeopardy! player.