Group Members
We always welcome motivated talents from all over the world to join our team!
Principal Investigator
Dr. Jiyizhe Zhang studied chemical engineering in her undergraduate. Starting from 2017, she took a jointly awarded PhD programme between Tsinghua University and the University of Melbourne, working on modelling of continuous solvent extraction processes for pharmaceutical applications. She received her PhD in 2022 and then joined University of Cambridge as a postdoc researcher, working with Prof. Alexei Lapkin, focusing on digital manufacturing by exploring artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic experimentation to accelerate chemical process development. Since 01/2025, she became Senior Research Associate at Cambridge (Research Assistant Professor) prior to joining the University of Manchester.
PhD Students
Aisel Eldwiny
PhD Student, 2026 entry
Sisi Liu
PhD Student, 2026 entry
Jon Dilworth
PhD Student, 2026 entryMaster and Undergraduate Students
Elias Rice
MEng student, 2026-2027
Muhammad Daniel Bin Surali
MEng student, 2026-2027Former students
Yu Lay Naung
SoE Summer intern, 2026 Summer
Project: An autonomous experimental platform for liquid-liquid extraction
Selim El-Sharkawi
SoE Summer intern, 2026 Summer
Project: Large language model assisted extraction system design
Miguel Chen
MEng dissertation, 2025-2026
Project: Automated process design for bio-downstream separation using multi agent systems
Hendrik Scheulen
2025.4-2025.11 @ University of Cambridge
Jan Laub-Fridric
2024.4-2024.11 @ University of Cambridge, now PhD student at ETH Zurich
Mathis Heyer
2023.4-2023.11 @ University of Cambridge, now PhD student at Stanford University