Prof. Jie Chao received her Ph.D. from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China in 2008. In 2006–2007, she was a visiting student in Professor Seeman’s laboratory at New York University, New York, NY, USA. After her postdoctoral research at Nanjing University, she joined the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) in 2011 as an associate professor. In 2014, she moved to Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunications as a professor. Her research interests focus on DNA assembly and bioapplications, chemical and biological sensing, the development of multifunctional intelligent nanoprobes, and single-base gene analysis. She has 146 publications with 6751 citations and an h-index of 45 (Scopus, 31 October 2023) in these areas. She won the first prize in the Science and Technology Award of the China Analytical Testing Association in 2017 (ranked second), and the first prize in the Jiangsu Province Teaching and Research Achievement Award in 2018 (research category, ranked second), National “Outstanding Youth Science Fund” (2019), Jiangsu Province “Outstanding Youth Science Fund” (2019), Jiangsu Province “Six Talent Peaks” high-level talent winner (2018).