Rate My Professor Wenlong Cheng

Wenlong Cheng FRSC is a Professor and Director of Research Strategy in the School of Biomedical Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sydney. He earned his Bachelor of Science from Jilin University, China, in 1999, and his PhD from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2005. Post-PhD, he held an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics and worked as a research associate in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. Cheng then served as an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology. In 2010, he joined Monash University, founding the NanoBionics laboratory and rising to Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Chemical Engineering.

Cheng's research centers on nanobionics, encompassing plasmonics, soft bioelectronics, wearable biosensors, and electronic skins, integrating principles from microelectronics and biology to advance wearable technologies. He is an NHMRC Investigator Leadership Fellow Level 2, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, former ARC QEII Fellow, and Ambassador Tech Fellow at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication. With over 245 publications, his work has accumulated more than 19,500 citations and an h-index of 76 per Google Scholar. Prominent publications include 'Plasmonic Skin as a Wearable SERS Substrate for Direct Chemical Analysis of Sweat' (Analytical Chemistry, 2016), 'Percolating network of ultrathin gold nanowires and silver nanowires toward “invisible” wearable sensors for detecting emotional expression and apexcardiogram' (Science Advances), 'Abrasion-resistant wearable skins based on bilayered solid/liquid interfaces' (Nature Communications, 2026), and 'An intelligent, compact wearable pressure-strain combo sensor enabled by laser-scribed porous graphene' (Science Advances, 2025). At the University of Sydney, he teaches on nanofabrication, biosensors, and biomimetic materials, and acts as Scientific Editor for Nanoscale Horizons.