The Department of Chemistry welcomes Assistant Professor Li Hao who has joined the Department today. She graduated from Hwa Chong Junior College, before going to University of Wisconsin-Madison to major in Biochemistry and Biology under the National Science Scholarship. She continued her PhD in Chemical and Systems Biology at Stanford University. Since returning to Singapore, she joined the Molecular Engineering Laboratory, IBN, A*STAR Singapore as a Senior Research Fellow. Assistant Professor Li’s research focuses on deciphering at a molecular level how microbial enzymes and their associated molecules structure the human environments they reside. In particular, she aims to define the functions of the microbial community in order to link human microbiome-associated diseases to targetable pathways and mechanisms.