Qi Zhou (Charles)

Lecturer in Biomedical Informatics (ZJE)

  • Institute for Neuroscience & Cardiovascular Research (INCR)
  • Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences
  • College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Contact details

Address

Street

ZJU-UoE Institute (ZJE)
University of Edinburgh
Hugh Robson Building
George Square

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9XD

Biography

Background

I'm a lecturer with a special interest in the modelling of blood flow and biofluids in microfluidic devices, vascular networks and biological tissues. My other research interests include bioinspired microswimmers and medical micro/nanorobots. Previously I was a PhD researcher (Principal's Career Development Scholar & Edinburgh Global Research Scholar) and subsequently a research associate in the Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids (IMT) at the School of Engineering, the University of Edinburgh (UoE). Before arriving in the UK, I worked on smart devices for nanomedicine in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), The University of Edinburgh (UOE)
  • Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
  • Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)

Undergraduate teaching

  • Computational Modelling & Machine Learning

  • Integrative Biomedical Sciences

  • Biomedical Image Analysis
  • Biomedical Informatics
  • Applied Data Science

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Areas of interest for supervision

PhD opportunity: In silico trials of medical micro/nanorobots in blood (fully funded 4-year PhD studentship)

https://biomedical-sciences.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate-studying/fully-funded-4-year-phd-studentships-in-biomedical

Other funded PhD opportunities:

https://biomedical-sciences.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate-studying/phd-research-programmes

Current PhD students supervised

Supervisor/Co-supervisor

Yuge Gao (PhD candidate, ZJE)

Dingyi Yu (PhD candidate, ZJE)

Stuart Si (PhD candidate, HWU-UoE)

Duo Wang (MScR candidate, UoE)

Qi Zhang (MScR candidate, ZJE)

 

Thesis committee chair

Youqi Zhu (PhD candidate, ZJE)

Cheng Zeng (PhD candidate, ZJE)

Xun Sun (PhD candidate, ZJE)

Past PhD students supervised

PhD/MScR students

Dr. Jinhui Zang (visiting PhD student, SJTU, 2025/2026)

 

Undergraduates

Valerie Koo (UG project student, UoE, 2025/2026)

Songxiang Xu (UG project student, ZJE, 2025/2026)

Linfeng Zhang (UG project student, ZJE, 2025/2026)

Yiteng Huang (UG project student, ZJE, 2024/2025)

 

Research summary

  • In silico biomedicine
  • Computational biophysics
  • Biological fluids and flows
  • Bioinspired microswimmers
  • Medical micro/nanorobots

Affiliated research centres

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