Our team

We are a young and enthusiastic team with curiosity-driven and open lab culture. Our team strongly values all forms of diversity and collaborative contributions.

Principal Investigator

Dr. Iek Man Lei

Assistant Professor, Department of Electromechanical Engineering
Faculty of Science and Technology
Email: ieklei@um.edu.mo

Dr. Lei pursued a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and completed her MEng degree with First Class Honours in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. She has received numerous awards, including the PhD Student Award from the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research, Best Graduate Student Award from the International Society for Biofabrication and WD Armstrong studentship from the Cambridge School of Technology. Dr Lei has published a series of peer-reviewed articles in professional scientific journals, including Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater. and Adv. Funct. Mater..

Academic Qualifications

2017 - 2022

2012 - 2016

PhD in Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK

Integrated Master's Degree (Incorporating Bachelor's level study) in Chemical Engineering (MEng), Imperial college London, UK (1st class honors)

Awards

2022

2021

2020

2017 - 2021

2017 - 2020

2016

2015 - 2016

2014

2012 - 2015

Nominated participant at Global Young Scientists Summit 2022

Best graduate student award, International Society for Biofabrication

PhD student award for outstanding research with real world application, Cambridge Society for the Application of Research

W D Armstrong Studentship, University of Cambridge

Macao Postgraduate Scholarship, Macao Special Administrative Region

Associateship of the City and Guilds of London Institute

Macao Postgraduate Scholarship, Macao Special Administrative Region

BP Perry's Book Prize for top students in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Special Scholarship of Macao Foundation, Macao Special Administrative Region

Professional Services

2023 - Present

澳門特別行政區人才發展委員會高新技術產業專責小組成員

PhD Students

Yiwei Zou

2024.08PhD, University of Macau
2017–2020MSc, Zhejiang University

Jiuhong Yi

2024.08 PhD, University of Macau
2021 – 2024  MSc, Zhejiang University

Wenxi Gu

2024.08PhD, University of Macau
2022 – 2024 MSc, University of Macau

Xiao Song

2024.01 PhD, University of Macau
2018 – 2022  BEng, Sichuan University

Peng Tan

2023.08 PhD, University of Macau
2019 – 2022  MSc, Shenzhen University

Research assistant

Shuqi Yang

2024.08RA, University of Macau
2021– 2024 MSc, South China University of Technology
2017 – 2021BEng,Beijing Institute of Technology

Master Students

  
  

Shiyuan Yang

2024.08MSc, University of Macau
2013 – 2017BEng, Dalian University of Technology

Zilin Wang 

2024.08MSc, University of Macau
2016 – 2020 BEng, South China
University of Technology

Peiqi Niu

2024.08MSc, University of Macau
2020 – 2024 BEng, Nanjing University of
Posts and Telecommunications

Ziyu Pu

2024.08MSc, University of Macau
2019 – 2023BSc, Anhui University of Technology

Chris, Xu Liu

2023.08MSc, University of Macau
2017 – 2021 BSc, East China University
of Science and Technology

Samuel, Ka Chon Ip

2023.08MSc, University of Macau
2019 – 2022 BEng, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Boyan Wang

2023.08MSc, University of Macau
2019 – 2023 BSc, University of Macau

Shengshan Zhang

2023.08MSc, University of Macau
2019 – 2023 BEng, Harbin Engineering University

Past students

• Ms Yixuan Guo (MSc student)
• Mr Cheney, Dechao Jiang (Undergraduate student, now MSc student in UC Berkeley)
• Mr Ronald, Sin Fai Hou (Undergraduate student, BEng student)
• Ms Chio Long Lao (Undergraduate student, now MSc student in HKU)
• Ms Cheok U Chan (Undergraduate student)
• Mr Keng Hong Lam (Undergraduate student)

Soft Matter Engineering Laboratory

E11 - 2031

Faculty of Science and Technology

University of Macau

Avenida da Universidade

Taipa, Macau, China

Dr. Iek Man Lei

Email: ieklei@um.edu.mo

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