4 September 2025
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Members of Micromachines


Micromachines
(ISSN: 2072-666X) is pleased to announce that the following 47 researchers out of 185 applications have been added to our group of 2025–2026 Early Career Editorial Board Members. Please join us in congratulating them on joining the Micromachines community!

Name: Dr. Eric Y. Ma
Affiliation: Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Research interests: sub-wavelength wave–matter interaction; multi-physics inverse design; physics–AI

Name: Dr. Surjendu Maity
Affiliation: Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC 27705, USA
Research interests: organ-on-a-chip; microfluidics; brain aging; tumor microenvironment; immunoengineering; biosensors; micro/nano-fabrication; point-of-care diagnostics; BioMEMS, neuroinflammation

Name: Dr. Braulio Cardenas-Benitez
Affiliation: Center for Advanced Design & Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics (CADMIM), University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Research interests: lab-on-a-chip; droplet microfluidics; single-cell analysis; single-cell imaging; electrokinetics; dielectrophoresis; high-content microscopy; immunology; two-photon lithography; carbon microelectromechanical systems (C-MEMS)

Name: Dr. Ding Zhang
Affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, National Institute for Advanced Materials, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
Research interests: flexible thermoelectric; thermogalvanic hydrogels

Name: Dr. Bing Han
Affiliation: Institute of Medical Robotics, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Research interests: micro/nano-robot; laser fabrication; smart materials

Name: Dr. Jing Xu
Affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
Research interests: rechargeable batteries; integrated multifunctional nanosystems for energy conversion and storage

Name: Dr. Tianyiyi He
Affiliation: Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, Shenzhen 518172, China
Research interests: flexible electronics; wearable sensors; self-sustainable IoT; intelligent sensing systems

Name: Dr. Xinxin Xiao
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7H, 9220 Aalborg East, Denmark
Research interests: bioelectrochemistry; enzyme immobilization; biofuel cell; biosensor; electrocatalysis

Name: Dr. Dongdong Chen
Affiliation: School of Microelectronics, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
Research interests: inertial sensors; piezoelectric devices; integrated circuits; 3D integrated microsystem; UWB communication

Name: Dr. Heyan Wang
Affiliation: Ultra-Precision Optical & Electronic Instrument Engineering Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Research interests: micro-nano processing technology; micro-nano sensing devices; optical thin films; meta-devices

Name: Dr. Lin Shi
Affiliation: College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
Research interests: flexible electronics; advanced manufacturing; bioelectronics; energy harvesting; MEMS

Name: Dr. Xing Huang
Affiliation: School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
Research interests: microfluidic biochip systems; design automation; computer-aided design

Name: Dr. Monica La Mura
Affiliation: Department of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Roma Tre University, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy
Research interests: CMUTs; graphene; MEMS; modeling; piezoelectrics; PMUTs; terahertz; transducers; ultrasonics; ultrasound

Name: Dr. Yangchengyi Liu
Affiliation: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, Singapore
Research interests: wearable electronics; soft adhesive, sweat analysis

Name: Dr. Yang Lin
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
Research interests: microfluidics; acoustofluidics; organ-on-a-chip; environmental monitoring; biosensing

Name: Dr. Artem Okulov
Affiliations: 1 M.N. Mikheev Institute of Metal Physics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg 620108, Russia; 2 Institute of Physics and Technology, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg 620002, Russia
Research interests: additive manufacturing; laser cladding; welding metallurgy; solidification cracks; welding simulation; liquid metal dealloying; powder metallurgy; materials design; porous materials; shape memory alloys; medium- and high-entropy alloys; biomedical materials; composite materials; polymers

Name: Dr. Tran Thi Ngoc Lam
Affiliation: Photonics Research Group, Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University–imec, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
Research interests: on-chip lasers; nanofabrication; rare-earth; photonic glasses

Name: Dr. Nicholas J. Ginga
Affiliation: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
Research interests: fracture; cracking; thin films; delamination; flexible electronics; finite element analysis; FEA; microfabrication; MEMS; microfluidics; nanochannels; material characterization; carbon nanotubes; CNTs; electronic packaging; reliability

Name: Dr. Murat Kabatas
Affiliation: Department of Precision and Microsystems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands
Research interests: thin film; photodetector; gas sensor; solar cell; supercapacitor; optics; photonics; materials
science; dielectric; photocatalytics; nanofabrications; nanocomposites; micromachine

Name: Dr. Xiaoxiao Zhao
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA
Research interests: microfluidics; coatings; wettability

Name: Dr. Fuxin Guan
Affiliation: Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China
Research interests: nanophotonics; metamaterials

Name: Dr. Liyang Chen
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Research interests: nano/microfabrication; surface patterning

Name: Dr. Liangxing Hu
Affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
Research interests: micromachining; nanofabrication; wafer/die-level bonding and packaging

Name: Dr. Changhong Linghu
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Research interests: smart adhesives; soft matter and soft robotics; contact mechanics; mechanics of materials

Name: Dr. Ninghao Zhu
Affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Research interests: tissue engineering; live cell biosensing; organ-on-a-chip; cancer metastasis; drug delivery

Name: Dr. Zekui Lyu
Affiliation: School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
Research interests: micromanipulation; flexible mechanism; microrobot; microstructure

Name: Dr. Deeptha Ishwar
Affiliation: Department of Stomatology, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada
Research interests: biosensor; cancer detection; spectroscopy; nanomaterials

Name: Dr. Filippo Laganà
Affiliation: Laboratory of Biomedical Applications Technologies and Sensors (BATS), Department of Health Science, “Magna Græcia” University, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Research interests: digital electronics; integrated systems; thermographic analysis on biomedical and environmental applications and devices

Name: Dr. Ilya Galaktionov
Affiliation: Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics, Aviamotornaya Str., Bld. 8a, Moscow 111024, Russia
Research interests: adaptive optics; automatic laser beam alignment control system design; optical measurements techniques and algorithms; light scattering; laser beam shaping; wavefront optimization problems; mathematical simulation and modeling

Name: Dr. Guodong Zhang
Affiliation: School of Artificial Intelligence, Optics and Electronics (iOPEN), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
Research interests: ultrafast optics; laser–matter interaction; laser micro-nano processing; laser welding

Name: Dr. Yang Chen
Affiliation: School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley PA1 2BE, UK
Research interests: photonic crystal fibers; chiral fibers; hollow-core fibers; computational optical imaging

Name: Dr. Yupan Wu
Affiliation: School of Integrated Circuits, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Research interests: microfluidics

Name: Dr. Jiaming Zhan
Affiliation: School of Advanced Manufacturing, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China
Research interests: ultra-precision machining; computational solid mechanics; ductile-regime cutting; nanomechanics

Name: Dr. Jie Han
Affiliation: School of Physics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Research interests: millirobots; soft robots; magnetic actuation; physical intelligence

Name: Dr. Yelei Yao
Affiliation: School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
Research interests: vacuum electronics devices; high-power microwave/millimeter-wave/THz sources; gyrodevices

Name: Dr. Qianxi He
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0C3, Canada
Research interests: advanced manufacturing; cutting tool design; coatings development; material characterization

Name: Dr. Wen Zeng
Affiliation: School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
Research interests: microfluidics; droplet; MEMS; digital PCR; micropump; microvalve; fluid mechanics; fluid transmission and control

Name: Dr. Manmatha Mahato
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Research interests: soft robotics; active materials; flexible and micro batteries; carbon materials; wearable haptics

Name: Dr. Majid Roshanfar
Affiliation: The Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Centre for Image Guided Innovation & Therapeutic Intervention (PCIGITI), Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, ON M5G 1X8, Canada
Research interests: continuum robotics; soft robotics; surgical robotics; medical robotics

Name: Dr. Kumar Shrestha
Affiliation: Center for Green Chemistry & Environmental Biotechnology, Ghent University Global Campus, Incheon 406-840, Republic of Korea
Research interests: nanomaterials; wearable sensors; triboelectric/piezoelectric/physical sensors; thin-films; soft-robotics; artificial intelligence

Name: Dr. Ghulam Dastgeer
Affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Republic of Korea
Research interests: nano materials; electronics devices; sensors; photodetectors

Name: Dr. Azadeh Jafari
Affiliation: Faculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, BC V3T 0A3, Canada
Research interests: nanofabrication; MEMS; semiconductor processing; material characterization; thin film deposition

Name: Dr. Rui Sang
Affiliation: Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Research interests: nanoparticle-based technology for cancer treatment and CRISPR-based gene therapy and diagnostic applications

Name: Dr. Ali Nawaz
Affiliation: Center for Sensors and Devices, Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), 38123 Trento, Italy
Research interests: semiconductor devices; micro/nanofabrication; cleanroom processing; plasma etching

Name: Dr. Arash Kardani
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20156 Milano, Italy
Research interests: computational materials science; severe plastic deformation; molecular dynamics

Name: Dr. Arwa Fraiwan
Affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71272, USA
Research interests: point-of-care diagnostics; biosensors; bioMEMS; biofuel cells

Name: Dr. Rongjing Zhang
Affiliation: School of Mechanical Engineering & Automation, Beihang University, Beijing 102206, China
Research interests: soft robotics; solid–fluid coupling; miniature medical robot

Back to TopTop