General

Dr. Pengfei Zhang is an  Associate Professor at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS. Gaining her PhD degree in Bioengineering in 2018 under the supervision of Prof Ben Zhong Tang at HKUST, Zhang is recognised for his innovative cross-disciplinary research in the area of synthetic chemistry and biolology, biomedical imaging and drug delivery. He conducted his research at SIAT from 2009 since he got his Master degree from Hunan University. 


Research Areas

Fluorescent probe for supper resolution imaging,

Photo-responsive Artifical Cell,

Nanotechnology for immunotherapy,

Drug delivery,

Photo-responsive biomaterials,

Point-of-care technologies,


Education

Dr. Zhang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Hunan University in Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry. He completed his PhD in Bioengineering at HKUST in 2018.  


Experience

Zhang’s research career has started in SIAT since he got Master degree from Hunan University in 2009. He was promoted as Asistant Professor since 2011. He went to HKUST for his PhD study in 2015 and got PhD degree in 2018. He came back to SIAT as Associate Professor in 2018. During the period in Hong Kong, he also serve as Teaching Assistant in Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.


Publications

Prof. Zhang has published  ~ 100 research papers and applied ~80 patents. The updated pulication list could be found on researchgate as following:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pengfei-Zhang-5/publications


Research Interests

Aggregation Induced Emission;

Aptamer;

NIR-II fluorescence;

Biosensor and biodetection;

Supper-resolution Imaging.