Dr. Edgar Wong graduated with a BE in Chemical Engineering (2007) and a PhD (2011) from UNSW. He returned to UNSW as a Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow in January 2016 and recently successfully obtained the ARC Future Fellowship in late 2021. He was also recently appointed as a UNSW Scientia Fellow in early 2022. Dr. Edgar Wong is an independent research group leader, ARC Future Fellow, and UNSW Scientia Senior Lecturer at the School of Chemical Engineering. He is a multidisciplinary researcher whose work spans several disciplines, including synthetic (polymer) chemistry, materials science, (micro)biology, and nanotechnology. His research interest in particular is in developing new functional molecules or polymeric materials for a range of targeted applications, including antimicrobial, anticancer, and antiviral applications