Yilun Ying is a professor at Nanjing University. She obtained her PhD in analytical chemistry from East China University of Science and Technology, following a doctoral exchange at University of Birmingham in 2014. She carried out postdoctoral research on nanoelectrochemistry at the same university before starting her independent career in 2016. She became a professor at Nanjing University in 2019. Her research focuses on nanopore electrochemistry for single-molecule analysis and the development of intelligent nanopore instrumentation for single-molecule reactions. She has received several awards and honours, including the L’Oréal-UNESCO International Rising Talents Award (2016), the Royal Society of Chemistry Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship (2020), the Young Chemists Award of the Chinese Chemical Society (2020), the American Chemical Society Rising Star in Measurement Science Award (2023) and the Wiley Small Young Innovator Award (2025).