胡方博士于2015年7月在北京大学获博士学位（导师：张德清研究员），2015年8月-2019年8月在新加坡国立大学从事博士后研究（合作导师：刘斌教授），于2019年9月任职南方医科大学教授，博士生导师。研究工作主要围绕基于聚集诱导发光（Aggregation-Induced Emission, AIE）的多功能荧光分子探针在生物成像、药物递送和疾病诊疗中的应用展开。成果发表在Sci. Adv.，Adv. Mater.，Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.，Adv. Funct. Mater.，Biomaterials等国际顶级和权威期刊，总被引用3000余次，h因子为29，ESI高被引论文3篇，ESI热点论文1篇，单篇他引超100次论文3篇，Adv. Mater.等期刊封面论文2篇。研究成果受到AIE概念提出者、国家自然科学奖一等奖获得者唐本忠院士等同行在Chem. Rev.，Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.等上亮点报道和积极评价。主持海外高层次人才青年项目、国自然面上项目、南方医科大学“优秀学术骨干”高层次人才启动项目、广东省基础与应用基础项目等，经费超过500万元人民币，期间，多次被邀请参加国际学术会议并作报告。
(1)Hu, F.; Qi, G.; Kenry, K.; Mao, D.; Zhou, S.; Wu, M.; Wu, W.; Liu, B. Visualization and in‐situ ablation of intracellular bacterial pathogen through metabolic labeling. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2020, 10.1002/anie.201910187. IF=12.257
(2)Hu, F.; Xu, S.; Liu, B. Photosensitizers with Aggregation-induced Emission: Materials and Biomedical Applications. Advanced Materials 2018, 1801350. IF=25.809
(3)Hu, F.; Mao, D.; Kenry; Cai, X.; Wu, W.; Kong, D.; Liu, B. Light-up Probe with Aggregation-Induced Emission for Real-Time Bio-orthogonal Tumor Labeling and Image-guided Photodynamic Therapy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2018, 57 (32), 10182-10186. IF=12.257
(4)Hu, F.; Mao, D.; Kenry; Wang, Y.; Wu, W.; Zhao, D.; Kong, D.; Liu, B. Metal-organic framework as a simple and general inert nanocarrier for photosensitizers to implement activatable photodynamic therapy. Advanced Functional Materials 2018, 1707519. IF=15.621
(5)Mao, D.+; Hu, F.+; Kenry; Ji, S.; Wu, W.; Ding, D.; Kong, D.; Liu, B. Metal-organic framework-assisted in vivo bacterial metabolic labeling and precise antibacterial therapy. Advanced Materials 2018, 1706831. IF=25.809, ESI高被引，ESI热点，+共同一作
(6)Qi, G.+; Hu, F.+; Kenry, K.; Shi, L.; Wu, M.; Liu, B. AIEgen‐Peptide Conjugate: Phototheranostics for Phagosome‐Entrapped Bacteria. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2019, 10.1002/anie.201906099. IF=12.257，+共同一作
(7)Hu, F.; Yuan, Y.; Mao, D.; Wu, W.; Liu, B. Smart activatable and traceable dual-prodrug for image-guided combination photodynamic and chemo-therapy. Biomaterials 2017, 144, 53-59. IF=10.273
(8)Hu, F.; Zhang, G. X.; Zhan, C.; Zhang, W.; Yan, Y. L.; Zhao, Y. S.; Fu, H. B.; Zhang, D. Q. Highly Solid-State Emissive Pyridinium-Substituted Tetraphenylethylene Salts: Emission Color-Tuning with Counter Anions and Application for Optical Waveguides. Small 2015, 11, 1335-1344. IF=10.856