Zhigang Wu is a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China. Before joining HUST, Dr. Wu was an associate professor in Microsystems Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden. The mission of Wu’s research is to develop new fabrication and manufacturing technologies for liquid fused soft intelligent systems that can potentially bring new solutions for societal challenges. Currently, his research focus on technology and application development of 1) microfluidics for in vivo diagnosis, 2) liquid alloy based soft electronics, 3) intelligent soft robot.
Dr. Wu was selected as in junior researcher program by Swedish research council in 2010 and Chutian Scholar by Hubei government in 2012. Dr. Wu is the founding executive chair of International Symposium of Flexible and Stretchable Electronics and the chair of conference of Soft Robot Theory and Technology, 2019, Wuhan. He is also sitting the editorial board of J. Micromech. Microeng., Micromachines and guest editor of Material Today Physics.
