- Type of scholarship
- Battery Program Students
- Oxford course
- DPhil Engineering Science
- Oxford college
- St Catherine鈥檚 College
- Cohort
- Current听2025
- Country
Yuqi is a DPhil student in Engineering Science from China whose work focuses on lithium-air batteries with X-ray tomography. Yuqi earned dual BSc degrees in Materials Science & Engineering from Northeastern University (China) and in Chemistry from Universit茅 Toulouse III 鈥 Paul Sabatier. As an undergraduate, Yuqi helped develop a modified diatomite catalyst that turns waste cooking oil into biofuel, a project that received a national Excellence Award. Yuqi later completed an MSc in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering at Imperial College London on aqueous zinc-ion 3D-printed micro-flexible batteries. 听Prior to his DPhil at Oxford, he was a research assistant at the University of Science and Technology Beijing working on sodium-ion solid-state interfaces. 听Outside the lab, he enjoys playing basketball and watching films.
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