2023暑期线下科研·海外：牛津大学教授机械工程与机电一体化

Christopher 导师现任牛津大学终身教授兼任剑桥大学工程系教职，仿生系统研究团队负责人，曾负责剑桥大学圣约翰学院的本科生管理和招生工作。Christopher 导师于2008年在密歇根大学（University of Michigan）获得跨物理学士学位后，在美国核管理委员（Nuclear Regulatory Commission，简称NRC）会担任顾问科学家。2015年在加州大学圣巴巴拉分校（UCSB）获得了材料学博士学位，研究方向为有机光伏的损耗机制。随后，他获得了生物技术领域惠特克国际公司的博士后奖学金。Christopher 导师共发表论文40余篇，多次获得奖项和研究金，其中有美国科学基金会奖金、材料研究学会奖金、英国生物技术和生物科学研究理事会奖金等。2022年荣获欧洲研究委员会（ERC）启动奖，用于开发相关领域的新技术。

Professor Christopher is a tenured Professor at the University of Oxford and a Senior Faculty member in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He is the head of the Biomimetic Systems Research Group and was responsible for undergraduate management and recruitment at St John's College, Cambridge. After receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in Interdisciplinary Physics from the University of Michigan in 2008, Dr. Christopher served as a consultant scientist at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In 2015, he received his PhD in Materials science from University of California Santa Barbara. His research direction is loss mechanism of organic photovoltaic. He then received a postdoctoral fellowship at Whittaker International in the field of biotechnology to develop implantable bioelectronic devices for the treatment of neurological diseases at the Bioelectronics Department of the Universite de Saint-Etienne. Professor Christopher has published more than 40 papers and won many prestigious awards and fellowships, including grants from the National Science Foundation, the Materials Research Society, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the United Kingdom. He is awarded European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (The grant will assist the development of new bioelectronic technologies with a focus on treating neurological disorders such as epilepsy).