Biography

Rongjun is Professor of Biomaterials Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. His research focuses on the development of biomaterials for applications including targeted drug delivery, cancer theranostics, cell and gene therapy, heat-stable vaccine formulation, and thrombolytic therapy.

Rongjun did his PhD (2003-2007), funded by Gates Cambridge Scholarship and Overseas Research Studentship, and his postdoctoral work (2006-2009) at the University of Cambridge, both in the lab of Professor Nigel Slater FREng in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He started his tenure-track academic position as Group Leader and BHRC Senior Translational Research Fellow at the University of Leeds in October 2009. He moved to Imperial College London as Lecturer in May 2013 and was then promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2016, Reader in Biomaterials Engineering in 2019 and Professor of Biomaterials Engineering in 2022.