Prof. Guoping Chen received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1997, majoring in Biomaterials, and undertook postdoctoral research there until 2000. He became a Researcher in 2000 and a Senior Researcher in 2003 at the Tissue Engineering Research Center, National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan. He moved to the Biomaterials Center, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) as a Senior Researcher in 2004 and was promoted to Group Leader in January 2007. He was the Principal Investigator and Unit Director of the Tissue Regeneration Materials Unit from April 2011 to March 2015 and the Principal Investigator, Field Coordinator, and Unit Director of the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, NIMS from April 2015 to March 2017. He is also a Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan. His research interests include tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, polymeric porous scaffolds, photothermal scaffolds, nanomaterials, biomimetic biomaterials, nano/micro-patterning, and surface modification. He was selected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2015, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2017, and the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering in 2020.