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, where 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. She extended her knowledge and experiences to semiconductor physics and electronics through 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 in 2015. 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 and collaborated with academic/industry partners to achieve impactful outcomes. 
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.