Editors

About the Editor

Prof. Youqing Shen is a national Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor in the College of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Zhejiang University, China, and a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He received his B. Sc. and Dr. Sc. degrees from Zhejiang University and Ph.D. Eng. degree from McMaster University in 2002. After working shortly at Akzo Nobel Canada, he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA, as an Assistant Professor in 2002 and then was early promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2007. In 2008, he moved back to Zhejiang University as a Qiushi Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Bionanoengineering. His research, funded by the US and Chinese funding agencies, focuses on designing and synthesizing stimulus responsive polymers as functional excipients for drug and gene nanomedicines. He has (co-)authored over 300 peer-reviewed articles and edited two books. Scopus has listed him as a “Most Cited Chinese Scholar” in materials science since 2014. He has received a number of awards, including the Distinguished Young Investigator Award from China National Natural Science Foundation and the Leading Young Innovator award from the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Biomaterials Engineering, a Springer Nature book series, an associate editor for the American Chemical Society journal Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research, and an executive editor for Elsevier journal Advanced Drug Delivery Review. He is also vice chair of the nanomedicine committee in the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association and China Medicinal Biotechnology Association.