Azlan Abdul Aziz obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. His research interests are primarily sensors for electronics and health applications. He is now a professor of nanomaterials and nanostructures at the School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), and he is currently one of the lead researchers at Makmal Nano (NanoLAB) at the School of Physics and the principal researcher with the Nano Biotechnology Research and Innovation (NanoBRI@INFORMM) team at the Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine (INFORMM) at USM.