Dr Yang Jingyi

The University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science

Biography

Dr Yang Jingyi is a postdoctoral researcher at Department of Engineering Science, Oxford, and a Research Fellow and Tutor at Keble College, Oxford. Her research focuses on the design and analysis of origami- and kirigami-adapted deployable structures. These structures can undergo large, reversible shape changes.

Specifically, Jingyi is interested in investigating the fundamental principles that govern the large geometrical changes of these structures, as well as their mechanical behaviour under various loading conditions. Some potential applications of Jingyi’s work include deployable space antennas, large solar arrays, space habitat, small-strain wave energy converters, metamaterials, and origami-inspired robots.