Xuexiang Weng received her PhD from Fudan University in 2007. She worked as a visiting scholar in the Department of Chemical Sciences at the University of Limerick, Ireland from July 2015 to July 2016. She has published more than 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Electrochem. Commun., Nanoscale and Sens. Actuators B Chem. Her present research interests are focused on the synthesis of nanomaterials for application in biosensors.