Dr Yige Sun

Profile

Yige Sun is an early career researcher in materials science (MiMMM). Her expertise includes 2D material, energy storage devices, 3D printing, and microscopy. She is currently a Faraday Institution research fellow in the Nextrode project, an enterprise and innovation fellow in the MPLS division, and a David Cockayne Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, University of Oxford. She also serves as a departmental Mental Health First Aider, a robotic project leader in Oxford Robotics and Additive Manufacturing Society (OxRAM), a career mentor under the People and Organisational Development (POD) unit, a member of the Oxford Space Initiative network, and a supervisor of a 3D printing lab in Oxford Materials Characterisation service (OMCS), University of Oxford. She is an Associate Fellow of High Education (AFHEA) against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education. She has served in several national and international review panels including the Faraday Institution's Community Awards Review Panel and the Expert Committee for the Canada Foundation for Innovation. She was an archer in the Oxford Archers Club. Now, she spices up her mornings by hitting the gym at 7 or 8 am, and in the afternoons, you'll catch her singing as a soprano with the college choir every  week! 

Outreach/Media

In 2022, She was interviewed as an enterprise fellow at the MPLS division (link here). In the same year, she wrote a blog 'Why explore? From a woman in STEM research'. In 2023, Yige was featured as 1 of the inspiring women in the Faraday Institution.

Public Engagement with Research

In 2022, Yige gave a talk on 'Visualising lithium-ion distribution in lithium-ion battery electrodes using plasma focus-ion beam and secondary-ion mass spectroscopy' at the Henry Royce Institute Meet the Researcher series. She also set up the challenges and presented in the Royce Ph.D. Research Sandpit 2022 at the Henry Royce Institute (Royce), University of Manchester. On the 27th of May 2023, Yige gave a talk at SoapBoxScience London, and invented an 'Ion Dance' to explain the electrochemistry mechanism of Lithium-Ion Batteries in a creative and engaging manner. The SoapBoxScience is a novel public outreach platform for promoting women and nom-binary scientists and the science they do.