Research Associates
 | Chaoqun Dong received her doctoral degree in Materials Science and Engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland in 2021. Her PhD research in Prof. Fabien Sorin’s group focused on design, scalable fabrication and application study of soft electronic multi-material fibers and textiles. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Early-postdoc Mobility Program, she started her postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge in 2021. In 2023 she was awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship to support her current research on the development of soft robotic actuators for minimally invasive neural interfaces. | |
 | Xudong Tao received his bachelor’s degree (2016) from the University of Manchester and then a master’s degree (2017) from Imperial College London. Afterwards, he moved to Oxford for his PhD degree. At Oxford, he was supervised by Professor Hazel Assender, investigating the roll-to-roll manufacture of flexible/wearable thin-film electronics (e.g. thermoelectric generators). After receiving his doctoral degree (2021), he started a postdoctoral project studying the HiTUS technique at Oxford in collaboration with Plasma Quest Ltd. At Cambridge, Xudong works as a research associate in the Bioelectronics Laboratory since 2022 focusing on an implantable drug delivery device for brain tumours. | |
 | Marco Vinicio Alban-Paccha received his BEng in Mechatronics Engineering (2013) from the Armed Forces University – ESPE (Quito, Ecuador) and his MEng in Micro/Nano Systems (2018) from Korea University (Seoul, Korea), where he worked on OLED material optimization. He then moved to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, Korea), where he received his PhD in Electrical Engineering (2022) advised by Prof. Seunghyup Yoo. Marco's doctoral research was on the use of thin dry electrodes and wearable electronics for cardiovascular sensing. Currently, Marco is doing postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge in the area of wearable sensors as part of the ADVANTAGE research consortium, part of the UK Advanced Pain Discovery Platform for monitoring and treatment of pain. Together with the Pain Group in the Department of Anaesthesia, he aims to develop wearable and ML-powered solutions to detect, classify, and predict pain episodes in humans. | |
 | Kian Kadan Jamal received her BSc. in Chemical Engineering from Arial University, and her MSc and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Tel Aviv university in Israel, where she was advised by Prof. Yosi Shacham Diamand. Kian’s Ph.D. research focused on electrical monitoring methods, based on electrical sensors with low-cost electronics, for a novel unified model to investigate electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) using an ultra-wide-band, 4Hz to 20 GHz equivalent electrical circuit. Kian is work on developing a new method to deliver Electrotherapy to Glioblastoma (GBM). Her PostDoc is supported by the Blavatnik Cambridge fellowship and the President of Tel Aviv University Scholarship. | |
 | Silan Zhang received her master's degree in Materials Physics and Chemistry from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018. She then went on to earn a PhD from Linkoping University in 2023 in Applied Physics. During her PhD, she was focused on the working mechanisms of organic electrochemical transistors. Currently, she is a VR (Swedish Research Council) international postdoc fellow at the University of Cambridge, where she is focusing on the charges transport kinetics within mixed ionic-electronic semiconductors. |