She holds a PhD from University of Otago and a Masters degree from China Pharamceutical University. In 2009, Dr Wu was appointed as a lecturer at Auckland School of Pharmacy, where she established research platform on ‘tumour targeted delivery’. Her research on ‘liposomes’ has attracted wide collaborations natioanlly and internationally, and was a recipient of NZ-China Scientist Exchange Award from the Royal Society of NZ. She also researches transdermal delivery with successful stories featured on NZTV3 (2015). Zimei has over 90 peer-reviewed articles and book/chapters that have been cited over 1000 times (h-index 20). She serves as an editorial board member of Journal of Liposome Research, and Pharmaceutical Development and Technology, and a referee for more than 20 pharmaceutical journals. Zimei is the immediate Past President of NZ Local Chapter of Controlled Release Society.