Principal Investigator
Dr. Liliang Ouyang
Associate Professor
Dr. Ouyang is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University (2017), postdoctoral training in Materials and Bioengineering at Imperial College London (2017-2020), and a visiting research training in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania (2015-2016). His research interests include the design, fabrication, and application of complex biomaterial and cellular systems, with a central focus on the development of 3D bioprinting and advanced biofabrication technologies for engineering in vitro living systems. He has published a series of peer-reviewed articles in well-recognized journals, including Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Materials Today, Trends in Biotechnology, and Advanced Functional Materials, with four first-authored articles ranked as ESI Highly Cited Paper. He is currently an Associate Editor of Biomaterials Advances and the International Journal of Bioprinting, an editorial board member of Biofabrication, and an Early Career Researcher committee member of ISBF. He has been recognized with a series of awards, including the ISBF New Investigator Award (2021), IOP Top Cited Author Award (2018), Distinguished Doctorate of Tsinghua University (2017), and GE Foundation TECH Award First Place (2016).
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Juan Zhang
Postdoctoral researcher since March 2023.
Previously: [2017-2022], Ph.D. in the Division of Life Sciences and Medicine at the University of Science and Technology of China, China.
Research Interests:
Scaffold-based tissue engineering,
Micro-nano Fabrication Technology
Biomedical Engineering
PhD Students
Runze Xu
Ph.D. student since Sep 2020.
Primary Supervisor: Prof. Wei Sun
Previously: [2017-2018], M.Res in Life Science at Imperial College London, UK.
Research Interests:
Dynamic biomaterials, stem cell microenvironment, cell-material interaction, skin tissue engineering
Dezhi Zhou
Ph.D. student since Sep 2020.
Previously: [2017-2020], M.Eng in Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University, China.
Research Interests:
Stem cell expansion, scaffold-based tissue engineering,
innovation in biofabrication methodology
Yuzhi Guo
Ph.D. student since Sep 2021.
Previously: [2017-2021] B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University, China.
Research Interests:
Innovative forms of bioinks, porous hydrogels, vascularization, organoids
Chuqian Wang
Ph.D. student since Sep 2022.
Previously: [2018-2022] B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering at Beihang University, China.
Bohan Dou
Ph.D. student since Sep 2023.
Previously: [2019-2023] B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University, China.
Shiyuan Fan
Ph.D. student since Sep 2023.
Previously: [2020-2023] M.Eng in Mechanical Engineering at Shandong University, China.
Hon Son Ooi
Ph.D student since Sep 2023
Previously: M.Sc in Biomedical Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Research interests: Dynamic hydrogels, biofabrication, animal modeling
Ziyu Wang
Joint Ph.D student since Sep 2023
Previously: [2020-2023] M.M in Surgery at Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, China.
Master Students
Supporting Staff
Changming Yang
Research Assistant since Sep 2022.
Previously: [2017-2020] MPH in School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Xiamen University
[2012-2016] B.Sc in School of Pharmacy at Tianjin Medical University.
Xuening Zhang
Research Assistant since Dec 2023.
Previously: [2022-2023] M.Eng in Bioengineering at Imperial College London
[2019-2022] B.Eng in Chemical Engineering at University College London
Jiaxiang Ma
Research Assistant since Aug 2024.
Previously: [2021-2024] M.Eng in Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University
[2015-2019], B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering at Dalian University of Technology, China.
Undergraduate Students
Shuang Yu
2020-present. B.Eng Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University, China.
Former members
Postdoctoral researchers:
- Yang Yang, postdoctoral researcher (2021 Spring-2022 Spring) (Primary supervisor: Prof. Wei Sun)
PhD students:
Master students:
- Florian Kroh, Master student (Spring 2023 – Summer 2024, Tsinghua-Aachen double degree)
- Jiaxiang Ma, Master student (Spring 2022-Summer 2024, joint student)
Supporting staff:
- Cheng Hua, Research Assistant (Autumn 2023-Summer 2024. Moving to Arizona State University for awarded PhD study as the next stop)
- Zhenhua Cui, Research Assistant (Spring-Summer 2023. Moving to the University of Hong Kong for awarded PhD study as the next stop )
- Jinghang Li, Research Assistant (Autumn 2022-Summer 2023. Moving to the University of Chicago for awarded PhD study as the next stop)
- Longxin Yan, Research Assistant (Spring 2022)
Undergraduate students:
- Grace Hii, undergraduate student (Autumn 2023-Summer 2024)
- Bangrui Li, undergraduate student (Autumn 2022-Autumn 2023)
- Ziye Zhang, undergraduate student (Spring-Summer 2023)
- Xiaoan Li, undergraduate student (Spring 2023)
- Jingwei Tang, undergraduate student (Spring 2023)
- Weiyi Rao, undergraduate student (Spring-Autumn 2022)
- Peixi Li, undergraduate student (Spring 2021-Autumn 2022)
- Yujiang Guo, undergraduate student (Autumn 2021-Spring 2022)
- Lele Song, undergraduate student (Spring 2021)
- Pengchao Ma, undergraduate student (Spring 2021)
- Jianxiong Leng, undergraduate student (Spring 2021)
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