I am an associate professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of the Philippines Manila where I graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry (Magna cum laude). I obtained my master’s degree in Chemistry from the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan and was a graduate chemistry researcher in the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. I obtained my doctorate degree in Chemistry jointly from the University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, and the Technische Universität München in Munich, Germany. My research interests are in the fields of nanochemistry and bionanotechnology. I am a peer-reviewer in high-impact international journals, such as ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces and Nanoscale, which are published by the American Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry in the US and the UK, respectively