Dr Bin Guan completed her PhD in the School of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales, Australia, working on a multidisciplinary project involving chemistry, physics, and biology. She has published over 10 papers in surface chemistry, physical chemistry, bio-conjugation, and biosensors. With her expertise in silicon material and surface chemistry, she joined a nanoelectronic research team as a research fellow at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, working on a silicon-doping project combining chemical modification with nanofabrication for nano-scale CMOS applications. She was instrumental in establishing the research project. Her achievement was recognised through the Young Scientist Fund by the Natural Science Foundation of China. During that time, she extended her knowledge and experiences from chemistry to semiconductor physics and electronics, evidenced by her publications on monolayer doping. Driven by her interests in sensing technologies for health and environmental applications, she joined the Future Industries Institute at UniSA, further expanding her research into material engineering, specifically micro/nanofabrication and manufacturing. Since 2018, she has worked on research projects in analytical chemistry (including biosensing), material engineering, microfluidic technology, and advanced manufacturing. She has rich research experience in surface functionalisation, micro/nanofabrication, optics, silicon-based material science, and biosensing. She is also familiar with a variety of material/surface characterisation tools, including XPS, FTIR, SEM, XRD, etc. 
Her research interests lie in the interdisciplinary areas of chemistry, engineering and materials science, with a focus on functional micro/nano materials for biological and environmental applications, such as sensing and diagnosis. She is particularly passionate about transforming the concept of low-level sensing from the laboratory to engineering lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices for real-world challenges.