Dr Zhugen Yang is faculty member at Cranfield University (UK), heading up Cranfield Advanced Sensors Laboratory funded by UKCRIC. He received a prestigious UK NERC Fellowship in 2018 to start his independent academic career as a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. His group is developing low-cost and point-of-use sensors (e.g., paper-origami device) for environmental science (e.g., microbial contamination and source tracking, AMR), public health (e.g. drug of abuse, COVID-19 for wastewater epidemiology), and biomedical diagnostics (e.g. infectious disease). He is recently involved UK national wastewater epidemiology surveillance programme (N-WESP) for COVID-19. He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed articles (such as PNAS, Anal Chem, ES&T, Water Res). He serves as editor of special issue on Biosensors for Wastewater at “TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry” (IF 12.3), and editor of the book on Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry (Elsevier), as well as Associate editor and advisory member of several international journals. His recent work has been featured in Science magazine, and widely reported by public media including BBC news/television, Washington Post, Daily Mail etc.