Rate My Professor Yuling Wang

Yuling Wang is a Professor in the School of Natural Sciences within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Macquarie University. She earned her PhD from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2009. Subsequently, she undertook a 22-month postdoctoral position at Purdue University’s Bindley Bioscience Center, focusing on nanobiotechnology. She then held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Osnabrück in Germany for two years, followed by an individual grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where she worked on multiplexed cytokines detection using plasmonic nanostructures. In 2014, she began her ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellowship. She was appointed Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University in 2017, promoted to Associate Professor in 2020, and to Professor in 2023. Additionally, she is an ARC Future Fellow, NHMRC Research Fellow, and Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP), leading the Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) program for in vitro diagnostics.

Wang's research interests encompass plasmonic nanostructures for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, biomarker sensing for point-of-care diagnostics, and personalized nanomedicine. She leads the Nanosensors@MQ research group and supervises ten PhD students as principal supervisor, among others. Her key publications include "A SERRS-based lateral flow assay for sensitive detection of mitochondrial DNA in endometriosis screening" (ACS Sensors, 2026), "On-chip profiling of bacterially infected host cell-derived small extracellular vesicles by surface-enhanced Raman scattering" (ACS Nano, 2026), "Proteomics study of breast cancer-derived small extracellular vesicles: unveiling potential cancer biomarkers" (Journal of Proteome Research, 2026), and "Impact of extraction methods on the determination of protein, fat, and carbohydrate content in long-life plant-based milk alternatives" (Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 2026). She has produced 159 articles, 20 review articles, 6 chapters, and 1 edited book. Notable awards include the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, ARC DECRA Fellowship, ARC Future Fellowship, NHMRC Research Fellowship, and membership in the ARC College of Experts (2022-2024). Her contributions advance diagnostic technologies in nanoscale biophotonics.