Project description
Are you passionate about advancing healthcare technology through exploring innovative materials and cutting-edge devices? Does your enthusiasm extend to wearables, point-of-care testing, soft robotics, and their healthcare applications? If so, we wholeheartedly welcome you to embark on an exhilarating research voyage with us. We are actively seeking a highly skilled and motivated PhD candidate to join our dynamic team. Our primary focus is exploring and developing soft intelligent systems for biomedical applications. We are interested in interdisciplinary problems that involve microfluidics, smart materials, electromechanical systems, machine learning, electronics, and micro-/nanotechnologies. We aspire to engineer useful devices through the investigation of the fundamental properties of materials. Please see Dr Tang's Soft Intelligent Systems team website and Google Scholar for more details about the research interests.
About Us:
The Centre for Hybrid Biodevices within the Digital Health and Biomedical Engineering (DHBE) group is a world-class facility housing both Level 1 and Level 2 biocontainment laboratories, offering a cutting-edge research environment. This centre is dedicated to the secure evaluation of biodevices and the advancement of methods for miniaturising analytical equipment, ultimately enabling automated, cost-effective, and more efficient sample analysis and biomarker detection. Furthermore, our close collaborations with the University Hospital Southampton provide students and researchers with the unique opportunity to engage with actual biological patient samples, pathogens, and cell cultures, ensuring a practical and real-world research experience.
About Dr Shiyang Tang:
Dr Shiyang Tang is an Associate Professor in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. He received his BEng (1st-class honours) in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia, in 2012 and 2015, respectively. He went to the Pennsylvania State University and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct his postdoctoral research in bio-microfluidics. He was the Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia, from 2017 to 2019. Before joining the University of Southampton, he was a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at the University of Birmingham, UK. Dr Tang is the recipient of the Future Fellowship and the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from the Australian Research Council. Dr Tang has published ~110 papers in high-impact journals, including PNAS, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Matter, and Advanced Materials. Dr Tang is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Nanobiotechnology (2022 IF: 10.2) and Nonlinear Engineering (2022 IF: 8.3), and an Editorial Board member of Sensors, Scientific Reports, and Soft Science.
Entry Requirements
A very good undergraduate degree (at least a UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent).
Funding: For UK students, Tuition Fees and a stipend of £18,622 tax-free per annum for up to 3.5 years.
How to apply
Apply online: Search for a Postgraduate Programme of Study (soton.ac.uk) . Select programme type (Research), 2024/25, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, next page select “PhD Elect & Elect Eng (Full time)”. In Section 2 of the application form you should insert the name of the supervisor Shiyang Tang
Applications should include:
- Research Proposal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Two reference letters
- Degree Transcripts/Certificates to date
For further information please contact: [email protected]