Ling Zang is a professor at University of Utah, affiliated with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Nano Institute of Utah. He received his BS in Physical Chemistry from Tsinghua University in 1991 and his PhD in chemistry from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1995. He was previously an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Erlangen-Nuremberg University in Germany, an NSF CAREER Award winner and a K. C. Wong Foundation Research Fellow. He is now a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI, 2020) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, 2021). His current research focuses on nanoscale imaging and molecular probing, organic semiconductors and nanostructures, optoelectronic sensors and nanodevices, with the long-term goal of achieving real applications in the areas of national security, health monitoring, renewable energy and a clean environment.