Yujia Zhang

Biography

Yujia Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Microengineering at the Institute of Electrical and Microengineering at EPFL. His research thrusts include iontronic hybrid tissues and wearable/implantable bioelectronics for applications in biomedicine. Recently, he has pioneered the area of dropletronics, in which networks of microscale soft droplets function as versatile bioelectronic/bioiontronic devices.
Prior to his appointment, he obtained his B.Sc. in Electronics and Information Science and Technology from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2016. Later, he completed his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and MEMS/NEMS technology at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, followed by one year of being a visiting scholar at Stony Brook University, USA. In 2021, Yujia joined the Bayley group at the University of Oxford, UK, and started his postdoctoral research with a focus on the development of multifunctional iontronic synthetic tissues for biotic interfaces and soft implants. In 2023, he became an Early-career Research Fellow hosted in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford.