Dr. Liping Zhu obtained her Ph.D degree in Materials Science from Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA in 2015. From 2015 to 2017, she worked as an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemistry at University of Southern Indiana. Then she started her postdoc research in Donghua University (DHU), Shanghai, China and joined the College of Materials and Science Engineering at DHU as an associate professor in 2021. Her research focuses on design and development of fibers, membranes and capsules with bio-based and responsive polymer materials for applications in environment, energy and biomedical fields.