Fabai Wu studied in Zhejiang University (B.Sc.), TU Dresden (M.Sc.) and TU Delft (M.Sc.) before he obtained a Ph.D. working in the Cees Dekker Lab (TU Delft) on the biophysical principles of protein pattern formation and chromosome organization. He then worked with Victoria Orphan Lab at Caltech on the bioenergetics, ecology, and evolution of archaea and bacteria involved in the deep-sea methane and nitrogen cycle. He started his group in 2022 at Zhejiang University and in 2024, he became an Associate Professor at the Eastern Institute of Technology, a recently founded, English-taught private university in the beautiful port city of Ningbo.