Yujia Zhang is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Electrical and Microengineering at the School of Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He has led the Laboratory for Bio-Iontronics (BION) since January 2025. A major interest of his laboratory is the development of iontronic biointerfaces and hybrid intelligent systems for biomedical detection and treatment. Recently, he has pioneered the area of dropletronics, in which networks of microscale soft droplets function as versatile bioiontronic/bioelectronic devices.
Prior to his appointment, he obtained his B.Sc. in electronics engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2016. Later, he completed his PhD in biomedical engineering and MEMS/NEMS technology at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, followed by one year as a visiting PhD at Stony Brook University. In 2021, Yujia joined the Bayley group and later became an early-career research fellow hosted in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford.

Master students interested in doing their semester project and/or thesis are welcome. Researchers who have their own funding and are interested in joining the group can also reach out to Prof. Zhang directly.

Current open PhD positions:
https://careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne-PhD-positions-3D-hydrogel-droplet-printing-for-iontronic-biointerfaces/1163547955/