Prof Jin’s research has been in the physical, biomedical engineering and interdisciplinary sciences, with expertise in optics engineering, automation devices, luminescent materials, microscopy imaging, and analytical chemistry, to enable single molecule detection, super-resolution imaging, high-throughput spatial proteomics imaging, organelle functional imaging, and diagnostic pathology.
Background Information
Professor Dayong Jin is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, a Laureate Scholar, a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and a Fellow and Executive Council Member of the Chinese Society of Optical Engineering. He was born in Fuxin, Liaoning Province, in February 1979. He earned his Ph.D. from Macquarie University in 2007 under the guidance of laser physicist Professor Jim Piper. In 2013, he was awarded the Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow and established the Australian Center of Excellence in Nanobiophotonics at Macquarie University. In 2015, he became a tenured professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and served as Director of the UTS Institute for Biomedical Materials and Devices; he was promoted to Distinguished Professor in 2017. He has established the Australian Center for Biomedical Devices and Technology Transfer, as well as the Sino-Australian Joint Research Center for Portable In Vitro Diagnostic Technology, funded by the Chinese and Australian Ministries of Science and Technology. He received the Eureka Prize in 2015, was named one of Australia’s Top 100 Science and Technology Innovation Leaders in 2016, and received the Australian Academy of Science’s Engineering Science Award and the Australian Prime Minister’s Science Prize for Science – Scientist of the Year in 2017. In 2021, he received funding from the Australian Laureate Scholars Program, and in 2022, he was awarded the Best Invention Award for Industry-Academia-Research Translation in Australia.In 2024, he was selected as one of the top 0.05% of scholars globally by ScholarGPS and has been recognized for multiple consecutive years as a Highly Cited Researcher (top 0.1% globally) by Elsevier and Clarivate Analytics. He has published more than 350 high-impact papers, including over 40 in Nature and its subsidiary journals. With 20 years of in-depth research in interdisciplinary fields such as nanomaterials, optical engineering, and biomedical imaging, he has earned numerous top-tier international honors and holds more than ten international invention patents. He has led or managed 20 major research projects, securing a total of approximately 310 million RMB in funding.
Research Areas
Prof Jin’s research has been in the physical, biomedical engineering and interdisciplinary sciences, with expertise in optics engineering, automation devices, luminescent materials, microscopy imaging, and analytical chemistry, to enable single molecule detection, super-resolution imaging, high-throughput spatial proteomics imaging, organelle functional imaging, and diagnostic pathology.
Education
2003 –2007: Ph.D. (Biophotonics), Macquarie University, Australia
1998–2002: Bachelor’s Degree (Physics Education), Liaoning Normal University
Work Experience
January 2024–Present: Chair Professor (joint appointment), Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo
January 2019–December 2023: Chair Professor (joint appointment), Southern University of Science and Technology July 2019–Present: Distinguished Professor (joint appointment), University of Technology Sydney
February 2017–July 2019: Distinguished Professor, University of Technology Sydney
May 2015–January 2017: Professor, University of Technology Sydney
March 2014–April 2015: Associate Professor, Macquarie University
July 2013–February 2014: Senior Lecturer, ARC Future Fellow, Macquarie University
July 2010–June 2013: Lecturer, ARC Future Fellow, Macquarie University
July 2007–June 2010: Postdoctoral Researcher, Macquarie University
ACADEMIC PART-TIME JOBS (PARTIAL)
July 2021–present: Associate Editor, eLight
Oct. 2019–Present: Editorial Board Member, Science China Materials
Oct. 2019–Present: Executive Council Member, Chinese Society of Optical Engineering
May 2019–Present: Member of the Biomedical Branch of China Rare Earth Society
January 2019–Present: Associate Editor, Opto-Electronic Advances
January 2019–Present: Editorial Board Member, Journal of Rare Earths
June 2018–present: Associate Editor, Cytometry A
April 2017–present: Associate Editor, Light: Science & Applications
Awards and Honors
2022: Recipient of the Australian Industry-Academia-Research Translation Best Invention Award
2021: Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
2021: Recipient of the University of Technology Sydney Chancellor’s Medal
2021: Recipient of the Australian Laureate Scholars Award
2017: Australian Prime Minister's Prize for Science – Scientist of the Year
2017: Australian Academy of Science John Booker Medal for Engineering Sciences
2016: Named one of Australia’s Top 100 Science and Technology Innovation Leaders
2015: Australian Museum Eureka Prize for interdisciplinary research
Research and Achievements
[1] Rui Wang#, Mengxiang Qiao#, Shihui Wen, Xian Qin, Xiaoya Zhang, Linqing Guo, Yanyan Liu, Li Song, Hongyu Chen, Dayong Jin*. Lattice and ligand engineering for hierarchical heterogeneous nanocrystals, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026, 123(18), e2529085123.
[2] Nannan Wang#, Dayong Jin*. Spatial transcriptome for cell segmentation, *Nature Computational Science*, 2026, s43588-026-01020-9.
[3] Karl Zhanghao#, Meiqi Li#, Xingye Chen, Wenhui Liu, Tianling Li, Yiming Wang, Fei Su, Zihan Wu, Chunyan Shan, Jiamin Wu, Yan Zhang, Jingyan Fu, Peng Xi*, Dayong Jin*. Fast segmentation and multiplexed imaging of organelles in live cells, *Nature Communications*, 2025, 16(1), 2769.
[4] Yujia Liu, Yiqing Lu, Xusan Yang, Xianlin Zheng, Shihui Wen, Fan Wang, Xavier Vidal, Jiangbo Zhao, Deming Liu, Zhiguang Zhou, Chenshuo Ma, Jiajia Zhou, James A. Piper, Peng Xi*, Dayong Jin*. Amplified stimulated emission in upconversion nanoparticles for super-resolution nanoscopy, Nature, 2017, 543, 229–233.
[5] Jiajia Zhou*, Alexey I. Chizhik*, Steven Chu*, Dayong Jin*, Single-particle spectroscopy for functional nanomaterials, Nature, 2020, 579, 41–50.
[6] Yang Chen, Chaochao Wang, Yelin Wu, Ya Wang, Yun Meng, Fan Wu, Huilin Zhang, Yuen Yee Cheng, Xingwu Jiang, Jieyun Shi, Huiyan Li, Peiran Zhao, Jinfeng Wu*, Bin Zheng, Dayong Jin*, Wenbo Bu*. Nutrient-delivery and metabolism reactivation therapy for melanoma, *Nature Nanotechnology*, 2024, 19, 1399–1408.
[7] Chao Mi*, Xun Zhang, Chengyu Yang, Jianqun Wu, Xinxin Chen, Chenguang Ma, Sitong Wu, Zhichao Yang, Pengzhen Qiao, Yang Liu, Weijie Wu, Zhiyong Guo, Jiayan Liao, Jiajia Zhou, Ming Guan, Chao Liang*, Chao Liu*, Dayong Jin*, Bone disease imaging through the near-infrared-II window, *Nature Communications*, 2023, 14, 6287.
[8] Qianqian Su*, Han-Lin Wei, Yachong Liu, Chaohao Chen, Ming Guan, Shuai Wang, Yan Su, Haifang Wang, Zhigang Chen, Dayong Jin*, Six-photon upconverted excitation energy lock-in for ultraviolet-C enhancement, *Nature Communications*, 2021, 12, 4367.
[9] Yongtao Liu, Zhiguang Zhou, Fan Wang*, Günter Kewes, Shihui Wen, Sven Burger, Majid Ebrahimi Wakiani, Peng Xi, Jiong Yang, Xusan Yang, Oliver Benson*, Dayong Jin*, Axial localization and tracking of self-interfering nanoparticles using lateral point spread functions, *Nature Communications*, 2021, 12, 2019.
[10] Xuchen Shan, Fan Wang*, Dejiang Wang, Shihui Wen, Chaohao Chen, Xiangjun Di, Peng Nie, Jiayan Liao, Yongtao Liu, Lei Ding, Peter J. Reece*, Dayong Jin*, “Optical tweezers beyond refractive index mismatch using highly doped upconversion nanoparticles,” Nature Nanotechnology, 2021, 16(5), 531–537.
