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Principal Investigator
Dr. Liliang Ouyang
Associate Professor
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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
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:

  • Changming Yang, Research Assistant (Autumn 2022-Autumn 2024).
  • 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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