Prof. Hejun Duobtained his BEng and MEng from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China in 1983 and 1986, respectively. Subsequently, he lectured there until 1988 before he left for Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK for his PhD study. He obtained his PhD from Imperial College in 1991 and joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore immediately after that. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NTU and the Director, Centre for Mechanics of Micro-Systems. He served as Head of Engineering Mechanics Division in the school from 2008 to 2011. His research interests are mainly involved in three areas: 1) MEMS, thin films and microfluidics; 2) smart materials and their applications; and 3) numerical and computational methods for engineering applications. He has obtained over 15 research grants from various research funding agencies in the past, totaling more than S$10 million as PI or Co-PI. He has published over 150 international refereed journal papers, which are well cited over 2200 times in the SCI with a H-Index of 25.