Dr. Yinlan Ruan gained her PhD from the Australian National University, Australia, in 2006 with her thesis focusing on low-loss chalcogenide planar waveguide devices for all-optical processing. After her PhD, she joined the Center of Excellence in Photonics in University of Adelaide. She firstly worked in fluoride glass development, then transferred to protein sensing. She is currently working in an ARC-granted project as an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow (APD). This project aims to model, fabricate and characterise light enhancement within a nano-size core hole in soft glass microstructured fibers and explore its applications in nonlinearity, high-resolution imaging and nanolithography. She is also working in the excitaiton of surface plasmon resonace with high-index nano-fibers for imaging and optical manipulation applications.