Xiao Hu is a Full Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rowan University, USA. He also holds faculty appointments in the Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the Graduate Program in Materials Science and Engineering at Rowan. He received his Ph.D. in Physics and his M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University in 2009. Prior to joining Rowan, he was a research associate in the NIH P41 Tissue Engineering Resource Center at Tufts University. His research focuses on the interdisciplinary area between biophysics, polymer science, and biomedical engineering.