Zi (Sophia) Gu is a Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), where she leads the NanoBiotechnology Research Group. She is a Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science & Innovation, and a member of both the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine and the UNSW RNA Institute. After completing her PhD training at the University of Queensland and Cornell University, she was awarded an NHMRC Fellowship and joined UNSW in 2016. Her research focuses on the design of advanced nanomaterials for drug delivery, biocatalysis and other bio-related applications. To date, she has published >100 peer-reviewed papers in nanomaterials and nanomedicine. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Cancer Nanotechnology and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Nanobiotechnology and Exploration.