MPLS Enterprise and Innovation Fellows 2022-23
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Natali Van Zijl Natali is a DPhil student at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Engineering Science, funded by a Rhodes Scholarship. Her research focuses on bringing together physiological modelling and data-driven approaches to explore and increase our understanding of blood flow control in the brain and what exactly is happening when it goes wrong. Prior to this, she completed her Bachelor’s in chemical engineering and Master’s in extractive metallurgical engineering at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. |
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Raquel Teixeira De Sousa Raquel was born and raised in Porto, Portugal. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Oxford Bee Lab at the John Krebs Field Station, in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford. She has a BSc in Applied Biology from the Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal), an MSc in Toxicology and Ecotoxicology from the Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal), and conducted research at the Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal) before commencing her PhD honeybee research in the UK. |
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Hao Zhang Hao is a member of the Chinese Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Electrochemical Society and the London Centre for Nanotechnology. He graduated from Nanjing University in 2019, focusing on the preparation of metal-organic framework-derived materials and their applications in electrocatalysis. Hao entered Imperial College London for a PhD on a full scholarship, where he graduated in 2022 with the John Matthey PhD Prize and then joined the Department of Chemistry of the University of Oxford as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. |
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Liang He Liang is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford and a Governing Body Fellow at Kellogg College. The core of his research explores the dynamic interplay between soft robotics, haptic and VR technologies, and wearable robotics. He received his PhD from Imperial College London, where his focus was on the transformative field of medical robotics. |