Yuxuan joined the NanoManufacturing group in October 2024 as a Ph.D. candidate supervised by Professor Michaël De Volder. He holds a BEng in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University and an MPhil in Micro- and Nanotechnology Enterprise (with Distinction) from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on investigating ion transport through the solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) in lithium-metal batteries using nanopore devices.