Menglu Chen received her B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2015 and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago in 2020. She has been a professor and a doctoral supervisor at the School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology since 2021. She has been engaged in the research of colloidal quantum dot (CQD) infrared photodetection technology for many years. She has completed several important research projects on CQD infrared photodetectors including breakthrough achievements in the low-dimensional infrared materials synthesis, transport optimization, and novel photodetectors. She has published nearly 30 papers including in Nature Materials, Light: Science & Applications, and ACS Nano.