Professor Chun-Xia Zhao is a Professor and a current NHMRC Leadership Fellow in the School of Chemical Engineering at University of Adelaide, and she is also the Deputy Director of ARC Centre for Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals (COEMinerals). She leads a research group focusing on bioinspired engineering, biomimetic nanomaterials and microfluidics for drug delivery and controlled release. Before joining UofA in July 2021. She was a Group leader and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow at Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland (UQ). She joined AIBN, UQ in early 2008 as a Postdoctoral Fellow after obtained her PhD degree in Zhejiang University. In 2011, Prof. Zhao was awarded an ARC Discovery project along with the Australian Postdoctoral Fellow as the sole investigator. In 2014, she was awarded the prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Her research in bio-inspired nanotechnology and microfluidics has attracted research funding (>$55M) from ARC, NHMRC, MRFF, CRC-P as sole/leading CI or CI, including seven ARC and NHMRC projects as the lead CI or sole CI, Deputy Director and Program Leader of ARC Centre of Excellence ($35M), ARC Research Hub, CRC-P, MRFF, AEA grants, three national prestigious fellowship (Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship 2011-2014 and ARC Future Fellowship 2015-2020, and NHMRC Leadership Fellowship 2022-2026), and many university and industry grants. In 2014, she worked with Prof. David Weitz (a pioneer in microfluidics) at Harvard University as Fellow of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. In 2016, her research excellence was recognised by the UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award. She has been appointed as member of the 2019 ARC College of Experts (2019-2021). In recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field, Professor Zhao was awarded a NHMRC Investigator Grant (Leadership Fellow) from the NHMRC for her project "Novel nanotechnology strategies towards a new paradigm of precision nanomedicine". Prof. Zhao has contributed substantial high quality scientific papers in international top refereed journals such as Nature Nanotechnology, PNAS, Science Advances, Nature Comm, Angew and the Chemie International Edition, ACS Nano, AM, AFM, AHM, and so on. She has been focusing on innovative research and has been active in patent application to transfer her research into practical applications, as evidenced by her eight patents. One of her patents was licensed to an international company. She has built extensive collaborations with scientists at top universities such as Harvard University, Brown University, etc. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Board member for several journals.