Zhongze Gu is currently the professor and the dean of the School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering of Southeast University, and the director of JITRI Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Devices. He is an elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2020), the Royal Society of Chemistry (2020).

He graduated from Southeast University (China) in 1989 and got his M.S. degree in 1992 there. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1998 from the University of Tokyo. He started his academic career in 1998 in KAST as a researcher. From 2003, he has been a Cheung Kong Scholars Professor at Southeast University. His research interests include bio-inspired intelligent materials, colloidal crystals, and organ-on-a-chip.