April 2024

July 2022

Glasgow, October 2018 (LtR)Yuwei, Kang, Zhugen, Franziska

July 2023

October 2021 (LtR) Karina, Fred, Zhugen, Yuwei, Qingxin, Qihang, Zhewen, Carla, Xuanye, Wenliang

December 2020

Cranfield Lab 2019: Cailing, Yuwei, Wenliang

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 Principal Investigator

Prof Zhugen Yang, ​NERC Fellow, MC Fellow, FHEA

Professor, Leverhume Research Leader, NERC Fellow
Cranfield Profile, Research ID, ORCID, Google Scholar 
Lecturer (Glasgow), Marie Curie Fellow (Bath)
Postdoc (Cambridge); PhD (Lyon), France;
MSc(SYSU) & BEng (HIT), China
E: [email protected]

Academic Visitors

Dr Wenchao Han

PFAS & Health (2023-4)
Clinician at Qingdao Municipal Hospital  

PhD from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China​

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Postdocs

Dr Mojisola Owoseni

Microbiology and AMR (2024)

Senior Lecturer
Federal University Lafia, Nigeria

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​Dr Ying Guo
Wastewater surveillance (2023-) 

PhD from Wollongong University, Australia

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Dr Carla Spatola Rossi 

Live pathogen sensors (2024-)

​PhD at Cranfield (2021-2024)
MSci, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

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PhD Students

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Ms Qingxin Hui

CRISPR/Cas-enabled sensors 

PhD student (2021-2024)
MSc,University College London
BSc, Sichun University, China

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Ms Yiting Wang

AMR monitoring and removal

PhD student (2021-2025)
MSc, University of Queensland, Australia


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Ms Amy Taylor

​Paper microfluidic sensors for disinfection process

PhD student (2023-2027)
MRes, Portsmouth University

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MSc by Research

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Mr Zhenyu Wang

Protyping of paper microfluidic device 

MSc by Research (2024-5)
BSc, Boston University, USA

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Mr Qihang Xu 

SERS & Microfluidics for Microplastics

PhD student (2021-2024)
MSc, Cranfield University
BEng, Harbin Institute of Technology


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Mr Zhewen Duan

SERS biosensors for WBE

PhD student (2021-2025)
MSc, Cranfield University 



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Ms Iva Dimitrievska

Electrochemical nanosensors

visiting PhD student (2023-2024)
Saints Cyril and Methodius University
​North Macedonia
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Alumni

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 Ms Yuwei Pan

​  Paper-based E-Chem sensors
  Cranfield & Glasgow University

​  PhD student (2019-2022)
  BEng, UESTC, China 

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​      Ms Xuanye Ma

      POCT device for SARS-CoV-2
      MSc by Research(2021-2022)

      BSc, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool              University 

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     Ms Karina Caetano

     SARS-CoV-2 variant detection
​     MSc by Research (2021-2022)

     MSc, UCL

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Ms Wenliang Li

​Paper-based sensors for AMR

PhD student (2020-2023)
MSci, Imperial College London 
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       Dr Fanyu Meng 

      Academic Visitor (2022-3)
       Prof at Harbin Medical School

       PhD from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China
   
   

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Name	Group Role	Years	Next Position
Dr Kang Mao	PhD student (joint)	2015-2019	Postdoc at CAS
​Ms Franziska Tuerk	Research Assistant	2018-2019	PhD student in Glasgow University
Mr Raphael Chukwuka Nnachi	MSc by Taught	2019-2020	Associate Lecturer in Nigeria
Mr Qihang Xu	MSc by Taught	2019-2020	PhD student in the group at Cranfield
Ms Cailing Zhou	Visiting PhD ​student	2019-2020	Postdoc at IUE-CAS, China
Dr Yuwei Pan	PhD student	2019-2022	Postdoc at Zhejiang University, China
Ms Karina Caetano	MSc by Research	2021-2022	UK BioBank
Ms Xuanye Ma	MSc by Research	2021-2022	Industry
Ms Sheriffa Griffiths	MSc by Taught	2021-2022	Industry
Ms Adedoyin Rasheedat ​Adekunle ​	MSc by Taught	2021-2022	Industry
Ms Bukola ​Fayokun	MSc by Taught	2021-2022	Industry
Miss Stella Menio	Visiting student	2023-2023	Ecole de Biologie Industrielle (EBI), Paris
Dr Carla Spatola Ross	PhD Student	2021-2024	Postdoc in the group
Dr Fanyu Meng	Visitor	2022-2023	Harbin Medical School
Dr Wenliang Li	PhD student	2020-2023	Industry