• ​🏅 STEM for Britain 2026 Silver Award

Dr Tian Yuan received the Silver Award in Engineering at STEM for Britain 2026, held in the Houses of Parliament on 17 March 2026. The event is a national competition for early-career researchers, organised by the Parliamentary & Scientific Committee.

Dr Yuan presented his work on predictive brain transport modelling for precision drug delivery, highlighting how engineering can support safer and more targeted treatment strategies for neurological disease.

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• Dr Tian Yuan to Organise a Workshop at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2026

Dr Tian Yuan is co-organising the workshop “Physics- and AI-Driven Digital Twins for Patient-Specific Robotic Diagnosis, Interventions and Therapies” at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2026.

📅 Date: 26 June 2026
🤖 Theme: Physics-based surgical modelling, AI, and digital twins for patient-specific diagnosis, interventions, and therapies
🔬 Focus areas: Medical robotics, biomechanics, imaging, AI, and translational medicine
📍 Event: Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2026

Colleagues working across these areas are warmly encouraged to attend.

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• Dr Tian Yuan to Organise a Mini-symposium at the WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 Conference!

If you’re working on multiscale or multiphysics modelling and characterisation of soft tissues, we warmly invite you to contribute to MS257 at the WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 Conference: Multiscale & Multiphysics Approaches in Soft Tissues, organised by Dr Tian Yuan (Imperial College London), Dr Suhaib Ardah (Imperial College London), and Prof. Moran Wang (Tsinghua University).
🤖 Themes:
• Multiscale fluid and solid mechanics in complex soft systems (e.g., brain, tumour, cartilage, hydrogels, biomaterials, cardiovascular systems)
• Image-based tissue reconstruction and computational modelling
• Linking cell-level processes to organ-level behaviour via biomechanics & biophysics
📍 Munich | 19–24 July 2026
🚨 Abstract Submission Deadline | 09 Feb 2026​