Dr Zhugen Yang was awarded a prestigious UK NERC Fellowship in 2018, where he led a group in developing advanced sensors for water-environment-health-nexus. Before joining Cranfield University in 2019, Zhugen was a lecturer at the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow.

Dr Yang completed his postdoc at the University of Cambridge and was an EU Marie Curie Fellow at the Universities of Bath and Glasgow. He completed his PhD at the University of Lyon (Ecole Centrale, France), MSc (SYSU) and BEng (HIT) in China.

His research has been sponsored by a variety of sources (~£2.5m) including UKRI (EPSRC, NERC, BBSRC), the Royal Academy of Engineering, and industry and governmental sectors (UK HSA, EA), leading to over 60 referred articles (including PNAS, Nat Commun, ES&T, Water Res, ACS Nano, Anal Chem), several UK/PCT patents and a number of invited/keynote talks at international conferences.