Speaker 1: Prof. Shery Huang, University of Cambridge, UK
Shery completed her MEng degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Imperial College London in 2007. With a Cambridge Gates Scholarship, she then pursued a PhD in Physics at Cambridge, focusing on carbon nanotechnology and experimental soft & biological matters. She was a visiting researcher at University of Texas at Austin (2008). After graduating from the PhD in 2011, she was awarded an Oppenheimer Fellowship and a Homerton College Junior Research Fellowship. she started as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Bioengineering at Cambridge in Aug 2013. As Oct 2022, she is the Professor of Bioengineering at the Department of Engineering, Cambridge.
Speaker 2: Prof. Xiaoxiao Han, Hunan University, China
Xiaoxiao Han, Ph.D., FHEA, Professor, is currently Vice Dean of the College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering at Hunan University. She was previously a Lecturer at Loughborough University, UK. In 2019, she joined Hunan University and started the research group of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Precision Biomedical Devices. Her research focuses on the integrated mechanism of “materials–structures–applications” in bioimplant construction, covering light- and extrusion-based 3D bioprinting, biodegradable polymers, and biomedical engineering. She proposed a high-precision light scattering suppression mechanism that enables hydrogel printing at nearly optical resolution and successfully constructed vascular networks and multi-scale scaffolds. She has led and participated in numerous international, national, and provincial projects, published extensively in journals such as Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, and Biomaterials, and holds several national patents with technology transfer exceeding RMB 20 million. Her team collaborates with leading hospitals and enterprises, forming a full-chain innovation ecosystem from basic research and technological development to pre-clinical validation and industrial translation.
Speaker 3: Prof. James Armstrong, University of Bristol, UK
Dr James Armstrong is Associate Professor of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at Bristol Medical School in the University of Bristol (www.TheArmstrongGroup.co.uk) Since graduating from his PhD in 2015, he has been supported by consecutive fellowships from Arthritis Research UK (2015-2018), the Medical Research Council (2018-2021), and now a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (2021-2028). These funding awards have enabled him to lead a programme of highly interdisciplinary and collaborative research focussed on using biomaterials, bioprinting, and remote fields to engineer artificial tissues and organoids with structural and functional complexity. He has published 47 peer-reviewed papers, featuring prominently across leading journals (e.g., Advanced Materials, Nature Communications, Science Advances). He is also co-inventor of four patents and co-founder of the University of Bristol spin-out company Impulsonics (www.impulsonics.com), for whom he now serves as scientific advisor.