Hanquan (Han) Su

My name is Hanquan Su (Chinese name: 苏瀚铨). I was born in Beijing and raised in Tianjin, China. I earned my Bachelor of Science in Chemical Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, where I studied from 2010 to 2014. During my undergraduate years, I worked with Professor Weixin Huang to investigate catalysts composed of noble metals and metal oxides. 

In 2014, I moved to the United States to pursue a Ph.D. in Chemistry at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Under the guidance of Professor Khalid Salaita, my research focused on mechanobiology, biophysics, and DNA nanoscience. I developed a super-resolution imaging method to study integrin-mediated mechanotransduction, and also created DNA origami polymer force clamps for high-throughput manipulation of biomolecular forces.

Since December 2020, I have been a postdoctoral fellow at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, where I work with Professor Peng Yin to develop DNA-based molecular imaging platforms. At the Wyss Institute, my research centers on creating DNA-based tools to investigate the spatial organization of RNA and proteins, enabling the profiling of key molecules across multiple scales.