Bing Xu, after receiving his BS and MS from Nanjing University in 1987 and 1990, respectively, obtained his PhD, under the supervison of Professor Timothy Swager, in 1996 from the University of Pennsylvania. Before starting his independent research at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on the Aug. 2000, he was an NIH postdoctoral fellow in the Whitesides lab at Harvard University. He was tenured as an associated professor in Jan 2006 and became a full professor in July 2008 at HKUST. Based on his works in HKUST and Brandeis, Bing Xu is identified on the Thomson Reuters "Highly-Cited Researchers 2014-2017 in Chemistry" lists. His currently is a professor in the Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University. He has made contributions to metallogels, multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles, self-delivery drugs, and supramolecular hydrogels. His current research focuses on the applications of enzymatic noncovalent syntehsis in materials, biology, and medicine.