Dr Nan Zhang is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Manufacturing and Design in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland. His research work covers the polymer micro/nano manufacturing, precision manufacturing of plastic microfluidic chips, manufacturing functional micro/nano structured surfaces and miniature medical devices, microfluidic systems for the synthesis of genetic nanomedicine and molecular diagnostics, and atomic and close to atomic-scale manufacturing. Dr Zhang has won 4.5Million grant in his early career, including a recent funded H2020 MSCA ITN Grant as a consortium coordinator, which has 13 industrial and academic partners from 4 European countries. His work was also funded by Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland- Commercialization Funding, Irish Research Council and UCD etc. He was the chair of the 6th international conference on polymer replication on the nanoscale (PRN2019). His research has generated several patents which have been commercialised or are in the process of being commercialised.
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