Lingxiang Jiang is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars (2021) and currently serves as a Professor at the School of Emerging Soft Matter, South China University of Technology. He received his bachelor's degree (2007) and Ph.D. (2012) from Peking University, followed by postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2016, he returned to China to establish an independent research group at Jinan University, and in 2020, he joined SCUT. His research focuses on biomimetic self-assembly and dynamic behaviors. He has constructed a variety of biomimetic subcellular structures, identified key structural motifs, and elucidated underlying assembly mechanisms.

His work explores the functional roles of biomimetic systems at the cellular scale and has achieved breakthroughs in their macroscopic applications. Specifically, his group designs, synthesizes, and constructs biomimetic systems by simplifying subcellular structures into minimal model systems. The results demonstrate that seemingly complex architectures can arise from simple small molecules governed by fundamental physicochemical principles.

1.Constructed a variety of biomimetic subcellular structures, identified key structural motifs, and elucidated fundamental assembly mechanisms. These systems were used to explore functional roles at the cellular scale, leading to breakthroughs in macroscopic applications.

2.Developed condensate droplets composed of carbon–fluorine molecules, which provide protective microenvironments for enzymes and biomacromolecules, enabling them to retain bioactivity under extreme conditions.

3.Advanced a suite of optical imaging and manipulation techniques, enabling targeted investigation of self-assembly and dynamic behaviors across millisecond-to-second timescales and nanometer-to-micrometer spatial resolution.