Dr Meiling Zhu gained her BEng degree in 1989, MEng in 1992, and PhDEng in 1995 at Southeast University, Nanjing, China. She joined the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Centre at Cranfield University in 2002 as a Research Officer and then became a Senior Research Fellow in 2007. Prior to joining Cranfield Prior to joining Cranfield she was a Research Fellow at the Biomechanical Research Group, in the University of Leeds (2001-2); an awarded prestigious Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt at the Institut B für Mechanik, in Stuttgart Universität (1999-2001); a Visiting Scholar at the Mechanical Engineering Department, in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1998-9); and a Post doctor (1995-6) and then an Associate Professor (1996-8) at the Institute of Vibration Engineering Research, in the Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics.

 

She was awarded a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship in Germany in 1999. She has been also awarded a number of research grants/contracts from China, Germany, and the UK and EU funding bodies and industry. She is currently Principal Investigator of an EPSRC and a Cranfield IMRC Grants, and a Co-Investigator of IMRC Grant, a Research-Co-Investigator of an EPSRC Flagship Grants. She is leading research themes in piezoelectric energy harvesting devices for self powered sensors and detection/diagnostic platforms for security and healthcare within the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Centre of Cranfield University. She has published about 60 refereed journal and conference papers in Macro/Microsystems technology and applications. She is a Fellow of the AvH, a member of the Institute of Physics (IOP), and a Chartered Engineer and Scientist.