Open Positions:
There are funded PhD and Postdoc positions available in the group. Master students interested in doing their semester project and/or thesis are also welcome. Researchers who are interested in joining the group can reach out to Prof. Zhang directly.
The research group is highly interdisciplinary. There are three main research directions:
- Advanced manufacturing of iontronic synthetic tissues—3D printing system to construct microscale, multimaterial hydrogel droplet networks.
- Multifunctional iontronic synthetic tissues from patterned droplet networks, including functions of embodied energy, logic control, stimuli-responsiveness, therapeutics delivery, etc.
- Modulation of living cells in culture. Examples include human iPSC-derived neurons, cardiomyocytes, and organoids.