Dr. Qibin Zhao is an Associate Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Shanghai JiaoTong University. His research focuses on functional materials assembled from nano- and microparticles; scalable methods for nanomaterial fabrication; emergent phenomena and mechanisms in soft condensed matter; and natural photonic structures and their roles in evolution. He developed the bending-induced oscillatory shearing method (BIOS) for large-scale photonic crystal assembly as a first year PhD student in Prof. Jeremy Baumberg's group at the University of Cambridge in 2011.