Xufeng Xue, Ph.D.

Integrated Biosystems and Biomechanics Laboratory

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Michigan

2350 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125

Email: xufeng@umich.edu

Biography

I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I recerved my B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2014. I earned my Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2020.

I am very motivated to study biological problems using interdisciplinary approaches. My research interest is to integrate state-of-art engineering techniques, single-cell technologies with new discoveries of mechanobiology, stem cell biology and developmental biology to advance fundamental understanding of human development and diseases. In my career, I aim to build synthetic human tissues using stem cells and use it to address important questions in human development and diseases. Richard Feynman once said, “What I cannot create, I do not understand”. I believe we could understand the principles of development through building synthetic human tissues. And the synthetic human tissues in conjunction with genetic tools and induce human pluripotent stem cells could be used to study the molecular mechanisms of human development and diseases. My background in microengineering, microfluidics, mechanobiology, and stem cell biology positions me well to pursue such multi-disciplinary work.