About Wanyun Ma’s work
Wanyun Ma held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Baptist University from July to December 2002. At the time, Ma was based at Tsinghua University.
Biography
Ma Wanyun received her Ph.D. in Physics from Tsinghua University in 1987. She has successively served as a Professor in the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University, the Director of the Key Laboratory of "Atomic, Molecular and Nanoscience" of the Ministry of Education, and the Deputy Director of the "Atomic and Molecular Nanoscience Research Center".
Ma's research focuses on single-molecule detection and imaging technology, the dynamics of the interaction between biological macromolecules at the single-molecule level, the high-sensitivity, real-time, in-situ four-dimensional dynamic observation of specific biological macromolecules in living cells and their application in biomedicine, the study of nano-biomechanics of living cells, the ultrastructure and properties of biomaterials, and the application of high-sensitivity detection in resources, environment, materials and biomedicine. Among them, single-molecule detection refers to the detection sensitivity of target molecules in the sensitive region to reach the single molecular weight level, which provides an important research method for studying enzyme-catalyzed reaction kinetics, the structure, function and interaction of biological macromolecules, the cell signaling process, and the analysis of ultra-trace substances in complex systems at the single-molecule level. It has a wide range of applications in the fields of biomedicine, materials science, resources and environment.