Biography: Dr. Chia-Fu Chou is a Distinguished Professor & Deputy Director at Institute of Physics (IoP) and Director of Nano S&T Program of TIGP (Taiwan International Graduate Program) at Academia Sinica (AS), Taiwan. Dr. Chou received his B.S. from National Tsing Hua University in 1986, and Ph.D. from SUNY-Buffalo in 1996. From 1997-2000, he was a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University. In 2000, he joined Motorola Labs in Tempe, AZ, as a Lead Scientist/Principal Staff Scientist. In late 2002, he co-founded the Center for Applied Nanobioscience in Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, and served as an Associate Professor/Principal Investigator. Since 2006, he joined IoP/AS as a Professor and was promoted to Distinguished Professor in 2023. He has over 100 scientific publications and 17 issued patents. He is known in the BioMEMS community as an inventor of electrodeless (insulator-based) dielectrophoresis for molecular trapping and the nanoscale molecular dam for ultrafast protein enrichment and sensing. His current research interests include molecular/cell biophysics, nanobiosensors, plasmonics, micro-/nanofluidics, and tissue engineering. His works have been selected as Academia Sinica Significant Research Achievements and was awarded an Outstanding Research Award (2014) from the National Science and Technology Council/Taiwan, AS Investigator Award (2020-2024), and National Innovation Award (2023). He also served in the Editorial Board of Biomicrofluidics (2013-2016) and Chinese J. of Physics (2016-2018, 2021-), chaired the 5th International Conference Advances in Microfluidics & Nanofluidics (AMN2014), and co-chaired 2015 Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting “New Biological Frontiers Illuminated by Molecular Sensors and Actuators” in Taipei.