Principal Investigator
Dr. OUYANG Liliang
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
PhD Students
XU Runze
Joint Ph.D. student since Sep 2020.
Primary Supervisor: Prof. SUN Wei, Tsinghua University
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
ZHOU Dezhi
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
GUO Yuzhi
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
WANG Chuqian
Ph.D. student since Sep 2022.
Previously: [2018-2022] B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering at Beihang University, China.
Research Interests:
Shelf-ready biofabrication, brain-like tissue model
DOU Bohan
Ph.D. student since Sep 2023.
Previously: [2019-2023] B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University, China.
Research Interests:
Multi-phase bioink, subvoxel bioprinting, vascularization
FAN Shiyuan
Ph.D. student since Sep 2023.
Previously: [2020-2023] M.Eng in Mechanical Engineering at Shandong University, China.
Research Interests:
Neural tissue engineering, neural circuit engineering
Hon Son Ooi
Ph.D student since Sep 2023
Previously: M.Sc in Biomedical Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Research Interests:
Cerebal organoids, gene editing, disease modeling
WANG Ziyu
Joint Ph.D student since Sep 2023
Primary Supervisor: Prof. LIU Xiaoguang, Department of Orthopedics, Peking University Third Hospital
Previously: [2020-2023] M.M in Surgery at Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, China.
Research Interests:
Granular bioink, bone tissue engineering, OPLL
YU Shuang
Ph.D. student since Sep 2024
Previously: [2020-2024] B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University, China.
ZHANG Xuening
Ph.D. student since Sep 2025
Previously: [2022-2023] M.Res in Biomedical Engineering at Imperial Colloge London, UK.
Master Students
Rangga Fokta
M.Eng student since Sep 2025
Previously: [2021-2025] B.Eng in Biomedical Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China.
Supporting Staff
Undergraduate Students
CHENG Zerui
LU Yue
Former members
Postdoctoral researchers:
- Juan Zhang, postdoctoral researcher (2023 Spring-2025 Spring)
- Yang Yang, postdoctoral researcher (2021 Spring-2022 Spring) (Primary supervisor: Prof. Wei Sun)
PhD students:
Master students:
- Felix Schönwasser, Master student (Autumn 2024 – Summer 2025, Tsinghua-Aachen double degree)
- Florian Kroh, Master student (Spring 2023 – Summer 2024, Tsinghua-Aachen double degree)
- Jiaxiang Ma, Master student (Spring 2022-Summer 2024, joint student, Tsinghua University)
Supporting staff:
- Jiaxiang Ma, Research Assistant (Summer 2024-Spring 2025)
- 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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