Dr. Cuifeng Ying is a senior lecturer at the Department of Engineering at the School of Science and Technology (https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/science-technology/cuifeng-ying). She received her Ph.D. in Physics in 2013 at Nankai University, where she used photonic crystals and plasmonic nanocavities to enhance fluorescent signals for biosensing applications. She followed up her doctoral studies during her first postdoctoral appointment in Nankai University's Centre for Nanoscale Science and Technology, where she began performing single-molecule sensing using nanopores. In 2016, she joined the Biophysics group of Prof. Michael Mayer as a postdoctoral researcher at the Adolphe Merkle Institute at the University of Fribourg. Her research focused on characterizing single proteins using nanoplasmonic optical measurements and nanopore technology. Cuifeng has been working on designing and applying engineered nanoscale structures for biosensing applications. Specifically, her research focuses on using plasmonic/dielectric nanostructures and nanopore technology for DNA sensing and protein characterisation at the single-molecule level.