Dr Xianjin Cui obtained his first degree in Chemical Engineering at Zhengzhou Institute of Light Industry , and completed his Masters in Materials Physics and chemistry at the University of Science and Technology of China. In 2005. He was awarded a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Nottingham in 2010, and then worked at Warwick University as research fellow. Before taking up the position at the University of Birmingham, he had a postdoctoral training position in applying nanomaterials in targeted/pre-targeted molecular imaging at Kings College London from 2011-2014, and in pre-clinic Diagnosis of Parkinson Disease at Imperial College London from 2014-2015.