Zheng Cui received his Ph.D. in China in 1988 and went to the UK in 1989 as a Visiting Fellow at the Microelectronics Research Center, Cambridge University. In 1993, he became a Senior Scientist and later a Principal Scientist at Central Microstructure Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK. In 2009, he returned to China to join the Suzhou Institute of Nanotech and Nanobionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he set up the Printable Electronics Research Center. In 2020, he retired from the Institute but has been carrying on as an advisor. He is now more involved in the industrial application of nanofabrication with key roles in a number of startup companies.