Biography

Jinqing Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Her research focuses on developing new single-molecule manipulation and characterization methods to study complex biological macromolecules. She obtained her B.S. in chemistry from Sun Yat-sen University in 2010 and completed her Ph.D. in physical chemistry under the supervision of Prof. David Lee Phillips from The University of Hong Kong in 2014. She then worked as a postdoctoral associate in biophysical chemistry with Prof. Ziad Ganim at Yale University for two years. In 2017, Dr. Huang established an independent research group at HKUST, where she integrated optical tweezers microscopy and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to achieve the active control of analytes and SERS-active substrates, enabling the investigations of the heterogeneous properties of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the single-molecule level. After joining HKUST, she has published 27 papers in peer-reviewed journals (e.g., Nat. Comm., Sci. Adv., PNAS, Adv. Sci., J. Phys. Chem. Lett., etc.) as well as 2 granted patents in China and United States. She received Asia International Innovation Invention Award - Gold Award from Hong Kong Federation of Innovative Technologies and Manufacturing Industries (FITMI) and was selected as the prestigious FACSS Innovation Awards Finalist by Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) in 2023. She has been a member of International Steering Committee of Asian Spectroscopy Conference (ASC) and an elected committee member of Woman’s Chemists Committee, Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) since 2022. She has delivered 16 invited talks and served as the co-chair and organizing committee member for numerous local and international conferences, including SciX/FACSS Annual Conference, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Asian Spectroscopy Conference, Frontier of Nucleic Acid Science and Technology, and Symposiums on Chemistry Postgraduate Research in Hong Kong. She has been serving as editorial board member for Supramolecular Materials and as guest editor for Frontiers in Photonics hosting a special Issue on “Biophotonic manipulation, imaging, and sensing”, as well as the reviewer for several esteemed journals in the field (e.g., Anal. Chem., J. Phys. Chem. Lett., Analyst, Commun. Biol., etc.).

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