Jiukai Tang, Distinguished Associate Professor

email：jiukai_tang@shu.edu.cn

Personal Profile:

I have been engaged in the research and development of integrated optofluidic chips and their sensing applications. Optofluidics represents the excellent integration of microfluidics and optics, commonly used for manipulating and detecting fluids through light, as well as modulating light via fluids. The development of integrated optofluidic chips will significantly enhance the performance of analytical systems (e.g., miniaturization, integration, high throughput, high sensitivity, and in-situ capabilities) and provide analytical tools for addressing cutting-edge scientific questions. In previous studies, I have integrated a series of micro/nano-optical structures (such as optical switches, microlenses, microprisms, micromirrors, Kretschmann-type surface plasmon resonance structures) into microfluidic chips and explored the applications of these integrated optofluidic chips in biosensing and environmental monitoring. Examples include in-situ observing deposition and concentration of protein-nucleic acid condensates via liquid-liquid phase separation, highly sensitive and multiplexed absorption analysis, as well as ultrasensitive real-time analysis of total dissolved solids in aquatic environments based on micro fluids switching induced transient refractive interfaces. Related research findings have been published in journals such as ACS Sensors, Analytical Chemistry, Sensors and Actuators: B, and Lab on a Chip.

Students with backgrounds in microelectronics, optics, biomedical engineering, instrumentation, and other related fields are welcome to apply for the Master's program. Undergraduate students are also encouraged to join the team for scientific research practice, innovation, and entrepreneurship projects, where we can jointly explore interdisciplinary scientific questions and technological solutions.

Research Topics:

Integrated Optofluidic Chips

Biomolecular Phase Separation: Process, Regulation and Pathological Transformation

Nanoplasmonic Biosensing

Micro flow-multispectral Technology for Intelligent Environmental Monitoring

Education Background：

2025.11 Completion, Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Special Workshop, Shanghai University

2022.05 PhD, The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)

2017.06 Master, Tsinghua University

2014.06 Bachelor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Work Experience：

2026.01-Present, Distinguished Associate Professor, Shanghai University

2023.03-2025.09, Lecturer, The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

2022.06-2025.09, Postdoc, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

2017.08-2017.11, Research Assistant, Research Institute for Environmental Innovation (Suzhou) Tsinghua

Awards：

National Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, 2021, Bern, Switzerland

Best Oral Presentation Award, International Conference on Nanosafety, 2018, Grenoble, France

Excellent Poster Award, National Graduate Environmental Forum, 2017, Shanghai

代表性成果/Publications & Patents：

1. Tang, J., Qiu, G., Cao, X., deMello, A. and Wang, J., 2022. Microfluid Switching-Induced Transient Refractive Interface. ACS sensors, 7(11), pp.3521-3529.

2. Tang, J., Qiu, G., Wang, J., 2022. Recent Development of Optofluidics for Imaging and Sensing Applications. Chemosensors, 10(1), p.15.

3. Tang, J., Meng, Y., Bezinge, L., Qiu, G., Yue, Y., Zhang, X. and Wang, J., 2022. Colorimetric immunodetection of bacteria enriched on membranes within a compact multichannel filtration device. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 353, p.131142.

4. Tang, J., Cao, X., Qiu, G., deMello, A. and Wang, J., 2021. Optical-Switch-Enabled Microfluidics for Sensitive Multichannel Colorimetric Analysis. Analytical Chemistry, 93(17), pp.6784-6791.

5. Tang, J., Qiu, G., Zhang, X. and Wang, J., 2021. A 3D-Cascade-Microlens optofluidic chip for refractometry with adjustable sensitivity. Lab on a Chip 21, pp.3784-3792.

6. Tang, J., Qiu, G., Cao, X., Yue, Y., Zhang, X., Schmitt, J. and Wang, J., 2020. Self-aligned 3D microlenses in a chip fabricated with two-photon stereolithography for highly sensitive absorbance measurement. Lab on a Chip, 20(13), pp.2334-2342.

7. Tang, J., Wu, J., Li, Z., Cheng, C., Liu, B., Chai, Y. and Wang, Y., 2018. Novel insights into variation of fluorescent dissolved organic matters during antibiotic wastewater treatment by excitation emission matrix coupled with parallel factor analysis and cosine similarity assessment. Chemosphere, 210, pp.843-848.

8. Qiu, G., Spillmann, M., Tang, J., Zhao, Y.B., Tao, Y., Zhang, X., Geschwindner, H., Saleh, L., Zingg, W. and Wang, J., 2022. On‐Site Quantification and Infection Risk Assessment of Airborne SARS‐CoV‐2 Virus Via a Nanoplasmonic Bioaerosol Sensing System in Healthcare Settings. Advanced Science, p.2204774.

9. Qiu, G., Yue, Y., Tang, J., Zhao, Y.B. and Wang, J., 2020. Total Bioaerosol Detection by a Succinimidyl-Ester-Functionalized Plasmonic Biosensor to Reveal Different Characteristics at Three Locations in Switzerland. Environmental Science & Technology, 54(3), pp.1353-1362.

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