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Yujia Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Microengineering at the Institute of Electrical and Microengineering at EPFL, starting in January 2025. 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 as a visiting scholar at Stony Brook University and New York University, USA. In 2021, Yujia joined the Bayley group at the University of Oxford, UK, and started his postdoctoral research focusing on developing 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.

He has received several awards so far:

• Early-career Research Scientist Representative, STEM for Britain, UK Parliamentary & Scientific Committee (2023);
• Seal of Excellence Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships (2022-2023);
• Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2022);
• Outstanding Doctoral Thesis of Chinese Institute of Electronics (2021);
• Special Prize for President Scholarship for Postgraduate Students (2020);