Chi Chen received an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Wuhan University (China) and worked as Research Assistant and Research Assistant Professor at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences for around five years from 2011. He received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2019 from the Université Paris-Sud (France) under the supervision of Prof. Niko Hildebrandt. He is currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Biological Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States). His current research is focused on advancing nanobiophotonics and nanomedicine through programmable nucleic acid nanotechnology.