Associate Professor Ing Kong is the Deputy Head and Leader of the Advanced Polymer and Composite Materials (APCM) Research Group of the Department of Engineering at La Trobe University. She received both her first degree and PhD in materials science at the National University of Malaysia in 2005 and 2009, respectively. She completed her Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) at the University of Nottingham in 2015. Prior to joining La Trobe, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for two years at the National University of Malaysia (2009–2010) and RMIT University (2010–2011) and as an Associate Professor for the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Nottingham from September 2012 to February 2018. Associate Professor Kong has fifteen years of research experience in Applied Science and Engineering R&D activities. Her research interests are in the development of advanced materials, particularly functional polymer composites, magnetic nanoparticles, carbon nanomaterials, superconductors and additive manufacturing technology. She has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications, including 9 invited book chapters, 85 refereed journal articles and more than 50 conference proceedings. She serves as an editorial board member and a peer reviewer for many materials and mechanical engineering journals, and she has chaired and co-chaired multiple international conferences.