Gungun Lin is an Associate Professor at the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, UTS. He is a core member of the Institute for Biomedical Materials and Devices (IBMD). Prior to joining UTS, Gungun received his Master of Science Degree from the University of Ulm in Germany and his PhD degree with the highest honor (Summa Cum Laude) from Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany. 

 

Gungun leads a research group of "Intelligent Bio-MEMS" focusing on both fundamental and applied aspects of biosensing, microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip technologies. His work includes the design, fabrication, and characterization of smart, small-scale sensors, actuators and robots and their integration with microfluidic systems for biomedical applications. He specializes in studying the magneto-electrical properties and magneto-mechanics of functional micro- and nanostructures, e.g. multilayer metallic thin films and nanoparticle-polymer composites, as new-generation magneto-micro-electro-mechanical systems (magneto-MEMS) for sensing, acutation and robotic applications, and investigates how these systems dynamically interact with complex environments, including fluidic flows. Gungun's research has been published in prominent journals, including Chem, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, Analytical Chemistry, Lab on a Chip. 11 of his works have received journal cover story highlights. In the past five years, 100% of his works have been published in high-quality Q1 journals (SJR), with an average impact factor of over 10. Gungun's research has attracted >$6M in funding, including ARC DECRA and NHMRC Early Career/EL2 Fellowship, ARC Discovery Project and major initiatives, such as ARC Research Hub for IDEAL and Australia-China Joint Research Center for Point-of-Care Testing.

 

Honors and awards:

2026 NHMRC Emerging Leadership Level-2 Investigator
2024 Vice Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence through Collaboration or Partnership
2023 Dean's Award for Science & Collaboration, Faculty of Science, UTS
2023 Supervision and Mentoring Award, ARC IDEAL Research Translation Hub
2023 Science and Technology Award, ARC IDEAL Research Translation Hub
2022 ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Australian Research Council
2021 Marylou Ingram Scholar, International Society for Advancement of Cytometry
2019 NHMRC Peter Doherty Biomedical Engineering Fellowship, NHMRC
2018 Rising Star Award, Association of Australian Chinese Biomedical Scientists, Australia
2017 the Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus Medal, Leibniz IFW Dresden, Germany
2016 Summa Cum Laude (of highest honour) for PhD thesis, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
2015 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad (Top 1%), Ministry of Education China
2009 Baden-württemberg Scholarship, Baden-württemberg Stiftung, Germany
2008 He Yaoguang Prize (Top 1%), Southeast University Education Foundation
2008 Student Research Training Project (SRTP) Excellence Award, Southeast University, China
2006 President Scholarship (Top 1%), Southeast University, China

Selected grants:

2027-2032 NHMRC Emerging Leadership Level-2 Investigator Grant (Lead CI)

2025-2028 NSW Non-animal Technologies Network Grant (CI)

2025 UTS Cross Faculty Collaboration Scheme (Co CI)

2025-2028 ARC Discovery Project (Lead CI)

2024 Hamilton Syringe Grant (Lead CI)

2023-2025 ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (Lead CI)
2022 UTS CRB Grant Development Fund (Lead CI)
2021 Faculty of Science Seed Funding (Lead CI)
2021-2023 Australia-China Joint Research Centre for Point-of-care Testing (Co CI)
2020-2024 ARC Research Hub for Integrated Devices for End-user Analysis at Low levels (Co CI)
2019-2022 NHMRC Early Career Fellowship (Lead CI)
2018 Faculty of Science Staff Travel Fund (Lead CI)

Teaching activities:

• 91705 Medical Devices & Diagnostics - Subject coordinator

• 60101 Chemistry and Materials Science - Subject coordinator

• 68075 Advanced Materials - Demonstrator
• 68037 Physical modelling - Demonstrator
• 42721 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering - Lecturer

Group members:

• Mr Weihong Liang (PhD candidate, 2024 - present, joint supervision: Guochen Bao)

• Ms Asmae Mihandoust (PhD candidate, 2025 - present, joint supervision: Dayong Jin)

• Mr Mahdi Aliverdinia (PhD candidate, 2026 - present, join supervision: Guochen Bao)

• Mr Ethan Marsland (Research Masters, 2026 - present, join supervision: Ying Zhu)

• Mr Zelyu Chen (Postdoctoral research associate)

• Mr Vahid Yaghoubi Naei (Postdoctoral research associate)

• Ms Jawairia Khan (Visiting scholar)

• Mr Majid Alizadeh (Visiting scholar)

Alumni:

• Dr Yuan Liu (PhD student, Chinese Academics of Science, Joint supervision: Dayong Jin)

• Dr Guocheng Fang (PhD student, Nanyang Technological University, Joint supervision: Dayong Jin, Hongxu Lu)

• Dr Guan Huang (PhD student, Harvard Medical School, joint supervision: Dayong Jin, Ying Zhu)

• Dr Wei Ren (PhD student, Shanxi Normal University China, joint supervision: Dayong Jin)

• Dr Zhichao Yang (PhD student, Joint supervision: Dayong Jin)

• Dr Ming Lu (PhD student, UTS, Joint supervision: Dayong Jin, Jiajia Zhou)

• Dr Shen Zhang (Postdoctoral Research Associate)

• Mr Milad Akhlaghi (DYJ fellowship student)

• Mr Christian White (Master student, IMCRC scholarship, joint supervision: N. Rasick - SpeeDx)

• Ms Sinead Dutkiewicz (Master student, Forensic Science, joint supervision: Martin Sadraeian)

• Ms Kamalpreet Kaur (Master student, Forensic Science, joint supervision: Martin Sadraeian)

• Mr Ethan Marsland (Honours student, joint supervision: Jawairia Khan)

• Ms Maie Abdullah Alfadhel (Undergraduate, 60702 Science Internship)

• Mr Singh Ajaypal (Undergraduate, 91820 Biosensors Internship)

• Ms Qinghan Tang (Visiting scholar)

• Mr Manaf Saidi (Visiting scholar, Mitacs Globalink Research Award)

• A/Prof Kewu Li (Visiting scholar)

• Ms Kehan Cai (Visiting scholar)

Professional body roles and services:
(1) Journal Review Activities
• Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Nano, Lab on a Chip, and many more
• Reviewer board member - Micromachines

(2) Grant Assessment Activities
• NHMRC Fellowship, Ideas, Development Grants Since 2019
• ARC Fellowship, Discovery and Linkage Grants since 2020

• Prostate Cancer UK

(3) Professional Body Membership

• NSW Non-Animal Technologies Network (NAT-net) Executive Comittee 

• Australian Nanotechnology Network
• International Society of Advancement of Cytometry

(4) Journal Editorial Activities
• Guest editor - Biosensors and Bioelectronics (Elsevier)
• Topic editor - Journal of Applied Physics (AIP)

(5) Conference Organizing Activities
• 2023 Submit for Wearable Sensors and Devices (IBMD Research Week Event Series)
• 2021 43rd Australiasian Cytometry Society Innovator workshop
• 2021 Chair of the 43rd Australiasian Cytometry Society Innovator session

(6) UTS and Faculty Services
• Faculty of Science - Research Degrees Committee Member, since 2024

• UTS & D+I Strategic Partnership Committe Member, since 2023

• Manager of ARC "High-throughput portable and wearable device fabrication facility (LE180100043)", since 2019

• UTS Physics Laboratory Upgrade Working Group - Academic lead and coordinator, 2022-2025