Our team
We are a young and enthusiastic team with curiosity-driven and open lab culture. Our team strongly values all forms of diversity and collaborative contributions.
Principal Investigator
Dr. Iek Man Lei
Assistant Professor, Department of Electromechanical Engineering
Faculty of Science and Technology
Email: ieklei@um.edu.mo
Dr. Lei pursued a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and completed her MEng degree with First Class Honours in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. She has received numerous awards, including the PhD Student Award from the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research, Best Graduate Student Award from the International Society for Biofabrication and WD Armstrong studentship from the Cambridge School of Technology. Dr Lei has published a series of peer-reviewed articles in professional scientific journals, including Nat. Commun., Sci. Adv., Adv. Mater., Prog. Polym. Sci. and Adv. Funct. Mater..
Academic Qualifications
2017 - 2022
2012 - 2016
PhD in Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
Integrated Master's Degree (Incorporating Bachelor's level study) in Chemical Engineering (MEng), Imperial college London, UK (1st class honors)
Awards
2022
2021
2020
2017 - 2021
2017 - 2020
2016
2015 - 2016
2014
2012 - 2015
Nominated participant at Global Young Scientists Summit 2022
Best graduate student award, International Society for Biofabrication
PhD student award for outstanding research with real world application, Cambridge Society for the Application of Research
W D Armstrong Studentship, University of Cambridge
Macao Postgraduate Scholarship, Macao Special Administrative Region
Associateship of the City and Guilds of London Institute
Macao Postgraduate Scholarship, Macao Special Administrative Region
BP Perry's Book Prize for top students in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
Special Scholarship of Macao Foundation, Macao Special Administrative Region
Professional Services
2023 - 2025
澳門特別行政區人才發展委員會高新技術產業專責小組成員
Postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Qingwen Guan
| 2020 – 2024 | PhD, University of Glasgow |
PhD Students
Yiwei Zou
| 2024.08 | PhD, University of Macau |
| 2017–2020 | MSc, Zhejiang University |
Jiuhong Yi
| 2024.08 | PhD, University of Macau |
| 2021 – 2024 | MSc, Zhejiang University |
Wenxi Gu
| 2024.08 | PhD, University of Macau |
| 2022 – 2024 | MSc, University of Macau |
Xiao Song
| 2024.01 | PhD, University of Macau |
| 2018 – 2022 | BEng, Sichuan University |
Peng Tan
| 2023.08 | PhD, University of Macau |
| 2019 – 2022 | MSc, Shenzhen University |
Research assistant
Xiaofu Zhao
| 2021 – 2025 | BEng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Master Students
2024 – 2026
Heen Huang
Sin Fai Hou
Zilin Wang
Peiqi Niu
Ziyu Pu
Xin Chen
Zeyuan Wu
2023 – 2025
Chris, Xu Liu
Samuel, Ka Chon Ip
Boyan Wang
Shengshan Zhang
Past students
• Ms Yixuan Guo (MSc student)
• Mr Cheney, Dechao Jiang (Undergraduate student, now MSc student in UC Berkeley)
• Mr Ronald, Sin Fai Hou (Undergraduate student, BEng student)
• Ms Chio Long Lao (Undergraduate student, now MSc student in HKU)
• Ms Cheok U Chan (Undergraduate student)
• Mr Keng Hong Lam (Undergraduate student)
Soft Matter Engineering Laboratory
E11 - 2031
Faculty of Science and Technology
University of Macau
Avenida da Universidade
Taipa, Macau, China
Dr. Iek Man Lei
Email: ieklei@um.edu.mo
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