ISM2S, Oxford, July 2025

July 2022

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

April 2024

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]

​Group Coordinator

        Ms Cleopatra Camacho Toro
        
        Email: [email protected]

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​Academic Visitors

Dr Iva Chianella


​PhD, Cranfield
Consultant

Formal Senior Lecturer in Biosensors at Cranfield 

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​Postdocs

​Dr Ying Guo
Wastewater surveillance (2023-5) 

PhD from Wollongong University, Australia

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Dr Dhiman Chakravarty
CRISPR/Cas-enabled sensors (2024-7)

PhD from
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India

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Dr Jiaxing Sun
Photonic sensors for wastewater  (2025-8)

PhD from Nottingham Trend

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Dr Carla Spatola Rossi 
Live pathogen sensors (2024-6)

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

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Dr Adeel Muhammad
E-DNA sensors for public health (2025-7)

Postdoc at Imperial College London, UK
PhD Venice, Italy

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PhD Students

Mr Qihang Xu 

SERS & Microfluidics for Microplastics

PhD student (2021-2025)
MSc, Cranfield University
BEng, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Ms Yiting Wang

AMR monitoring and removal

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

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  Mr David Fadimu
   
​    Wasterwater Sensors
    PhD studente (2025-8)

​    BSc & MSc, Warwick University ​

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MSc by Research

Mr Zhenyu Wang

Protyping of paper microfluidic device 

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

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Mr Zhewen Duan

SERS biosensors for WBE

PhD student (2021-2025)
MSc, Cranfield University 

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Ms Amy Taylor

​Paper microfluidic sensors for disinfection process

PhD student (2023-2027)
MRes, Portsmouth University
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Ms Heni Wang

Single-cell analysis
PhD student (2025-8) 
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BEng, Sun Yat-sen University
MSc, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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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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Ms Iva Dimitrievska

visiting PhD student (2023-2024)
Electrochemical nanosensors

​Saints Cyril and Methodius University
​North Macedonia
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Dr Wenchao Han

Academic Visitor (2023-4)
PFAS & Health
Clinician at Qingdao Municipal Hospital  
PhD from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China​
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Ms Qingxin Hui

PhD student (2021-2024)
​CRISPR/Cas-enabled sensors 

MSc, University College London
BSc, Sichuan University, China

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Dr Mojisola Owoseni

Visiting Fellow ( Feb-May, 2024)
Microbiology and AMR 

Senior Lecturer
Federal University Lafia, Nigeria

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Dr Hideaki Tsutsui

Visitor (2024-5)
BSc Tokyo University, Japan
PhD UCLA, USA
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Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Riverside

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Name	Group Role	Years	Next Position
Mr Kang Mao	Visiting PhD student	2018-2019	Postdoc at Institute of Geochemistry, CAS, China
​Ms Franziska Tuerk	Research Assistant	2018-2019	PhD student at the University of Glasgow
Mr Raphael  C. Nnachi	MSc by Taught	2019-2020	PhD student University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Mr Qihang Xu	MSc by Taught	2019-2020	PhD student at Cranfield University, China
Ms Cailing Zhou	Visiting PhD student	2019-2020	Postdoc at IUE, CAS, China
Ms Yuwei Pan	PhD student	2018-2022	Postdoc at Zhejiang University, China
Ms Karina Caetano	MSc by Research	2021-2022	UK Biobank, UK
Ms Xuanye Ma	MSc by Research	2021-2022	Industry, China
Ms Sheriffa Griffiths	MSc by Taught	2021-2022	Industry, UK
Ms Adedoyin R ​Adekunle ​	MSc by Taught	2021-2022	Industry, UK
Ms Bukola ​Fayokun	MSc by Taught	2021-2022	Industry, UK
Miss Stella Menio	Visiting student	2023-2023	Undergraduate student at Paris, France
Dr Fanyu Meng ​	Academic Visitor	2022-2023	Professor at Harbin Medical School, China
Ms Carla Spatola Ross	PhD Student ​	2021-2024	Postdoc in the Group at Cranfield University, UK
Ms Wenliang Li	PhD student	2020-2024	Industry, China
Dr Wenchao Han	Academic Visitor	2023-2024	University of Qiandao Hosptital, China
Dr Mojisola Owoseni	Academic Visitor	2024-2024	University of Federal University Lafia, Nigeria
Ms Iva Dimitrievska	Visiting PhD student	2023-2024	PhD student at the University of North Mesodonia
Ms Qingxin Hui	PhD student	2021-2025	Industry, China
Mr Qihang Xu	PhD student	2021-2025	Industry, China
Prof Hideaki Tsutsui	Academic Visitor	2024-2025	Professor of University of California, Riverside, USA
Ms Ana R.D. Silva	Visiting PhD student	Value	PhD student at University of Porto, Portugal