DrQian Yang

Dr Qian Yang is Royal Society University Research Fellow and Associate Professor of Materials Physics at the Department of Physics. She Received PhD degree in Material Science and Engineering in 2018. She then worked as postdoctoral reseracher at the University of Manchester. In 2019, she was awarded the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and started working independently. She has since secured major funding and led several reserach projects on two-dimensional (2D) nanocapillareis. She was the Academic Theme Lead at the Graphene Engineering and Innovation Centre (GEIC), supporting industrial translation of graphene and 2D materials related products. She was promoted to Senior Research Fellow at University of Manchester in 2024. In September 2026, she joined Imperial College as Associate Professor.