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Dr Yikai Yang

Junior Research Fellow

Royal Society Newton International Fellow

Department of Engineering Science

PhD (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland);  MSc (University of Alberta, Canada);  BSc (Lanzhou University, China)

Dr. Yikai Yang completed his undergraduate education in theoretical physics at Lanzhou University in China.  He then enrolled in a Master’s program at the University of Alberta in Canada with an experimental research focused on unconventional superconductors. Upon graduation, he temporarily left academia and worked in the industry for four years before returning to pursue a PhD at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, where he conducted research on quantum criticality in an Ising compound in the presence of a strong hyperfine interaction. He is currently a Royal Society Newton International Fellow since April 2024, with a research focus on materialising for the first time a quantum engine.