Dr Zhaohui Tong is currently Associate Professor at the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Zhaohui received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering in Changsha University of Science and Technology in China. Under the guidance of Dr. Xuejun Pan, she earned her first M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering, with a concentration of biopolymer synthesis at Tianjin University of Science and Technology in China. Under the guidance of Dr. Yulin Deng, she earned her Ph. D. and second M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering with a concentration in organic-inorganic nanocomposite synthesis, from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. She had worked as a consulting engineer in Energy and Chemical Division of Ch2mHill Engineering Ltd. for two years. In 2010 she joined in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Florida as an Assistant Professor in Biological Engineering program. Her funding is currently funded by USDA, DOE, and Florida Space Institute.