Current Openings:

We have a funded studentship at King's College London Net-Zero Centre. This interdisciplinary project offers a PhD student the chance to work under the guidance of experts including Chaoyun Song, Maya Thanou and Kai XU in areas like flexible RF devices, energy harvesting, nanomaterial technology, and CMOS integrated circuits. Please apply before the deadlines in April and May 2024.  Please apply at here.

For Kings' College London PhD Students:

Please first submit your application for PhD Studentships in the Faculty of Natural, Mathematics & Engineering Sciences (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/funding/phd-studentships-in-faculty-of-natural-mathematics-engineering-sciences), nominate my name as your supervisor and send me an email to discuss the topics and supporting letter.

For Chinese students, please first submit your application through the King’s-China Scholarship Council PhD Scholarship programme (K-CSC): https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/funding/kings-china-scholarship-council-phd-scholarship-programme-k-csc. Nominate my name as your supervisor and send me an email to discuss the project possibility. 

General Recruitments:

Over the years, I have successfully supervised a number of postgraduate and undergraduate students, obtaining high-quality research outcomes. 

I am welcoming highly motivated PhD students, postdocs and visiting researchers who have the ambition to deliver cutting-edge research output in multidisciplinary subject areas across high-frequency electronics, renewable energy technologies and novel materials. Students/Researchers with the following backgrounds are highly welcomed:

• RF & Wireless background: Antennas, microwave circuits, filters, resonators, active components (transistors, diodes, PAs, rectifiers etc.) wireless communications, environmental sensing and IoT.

• Energy background: Various energy harvesting technologies, solar energy, thermal energy, RF energy, vibration and triboelectric nano-generator etc. Hybrid energy system, power electronics and power management systems for low-power sensors and electronics. 

• Material background: Dielectric materials measurement, dielectric probe station, liquid metal, liquid dielectric, stretchable electronics, flexible and printable electronics, metamaterials and metasurface. 

For interested students/researchers, please send me your CV as well as a brief description of your background and interesting research direction(s). A fully funded PhD studentship will be advertised soon on abovementioned areas.