Ping Hu achieved a B.Sc. degree in Clinical Pharmacy at Sichuan University in 2002, an M.Sc. degree in Pharmaceutics at Sichuan University, China, in 2005, and a Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Science in 2012 at The University of Manchester, UK. He served as a postdoctoral fellow in Pharmacy at the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy from 2018 to 2019. He has worked as a Marie Curie fellow in Germany and joined a few pharmaceutical sectors and academic institutions. He currently works as an Associate Professor at the College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, China. His current research interests include the design and evaluation of modified-release formulations and intelligent drug delivery systems. He is particularly interested in the design of hydrogel-based novel drug delivery systems, IVIVC of sustained-release formulations, stimuli-responsive fluorescent probes, and smart drug carriers with multiple functionalities.