Chenxi Zhang
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Background
Chenxi is an EPSRC-DTP PhD student based in School of Biological Sciences and affiliated to Centre for Research in Digital Education and Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her PhD research project explores the use of visual and audio representations to help secondary school students understand complex biological concepts.
Qualifications
2024 - present: PhD student, University of Edinburgh
2022 - 2023: MSc Bioinformatics, University of Edinburgh
2018 - 2022: BSc Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University
Current research interests
Data sonification, evolutionary biology, secondary school education1. Zhang C, Fitzpatrick R, Barker D. Game-based learning to improve understanding of point mutations at secondary school level. Journal of Biological Education, in press.
2. Zhou Q, Zhang C, Huang J, Gu L, Zhang L, Sun Y, Huang Y, Yang Z. (2022). Inducible defensive traits of Daphnia pulex against predators are mainly determined by the offspring's environment rather than their mother's experience. Freshwater Biology, 67, 1242–1254. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13914