Jian Ru Gong is a Professor at National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China. She received her Ph.D in Physical Chemistry from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences under the guidance of Prof. Chunli Bai in 2005, and was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Charles M. Lieber at Harvard University, Chemistry & Chemical Biology Department during 2005-2008.

 Prof. Gong has published series of high-impact research works in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Nano Lett., and Adv. Mater. etc. prestigious academic journals and edited three books on nanomaterials. Some of the papers were selected as Top 100 Most Cited Chinese Papers Published in International Journals and highlighted by Nature Publishing Group Asia Materials and other scientific media. She also won many academic awards, such as Young Talent of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011), Beijing Science and Technology Prize (2010), Chinese National Natural Science Prize (2007), First-rank Prize of China Association for Instrumental Analysis (2006), Procter & Gamble Honorary Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2004), Young Scientist Prize of Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2004). She is on the editorial board of Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense, a fellow of Chinese Academy of Sciences Youth Innovation Promotion Council, and a long-time reviewer of American Chemistry Society, Wiley-VCH, Royal Society of Chemistry, and other academic Journals. Her research work was granted by Ministry of Science and Technology of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Education of China, and Chinese Academy of Sciences etc.