Manfred Auer, PhD, is Professor in the School of Biological Sciences and Medical Engineering at Southeast University in Nanjing, China. He has decades of research experience in Europe and the US, and is the recipient of honors including an Otto Hahn Award of the Max Planck Society for exceptional PhD thesis (1999), an U.S. Department of Energy Outstanding Mentoring Award (2009), a Berkeley Lab Prize (2012), and a Chinese Ministry of Education Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professor Award (2022).