[August 2023 issue]

NA-affiliated Professor Wu Yilin, Professor, Department of Physics has been awarded the Tencent Foundation’s Xplorer Prize 2023 in the field of advanced interdisciplinary studies, one of two scholars from Hong Kong to be awarded the prize.

Professor Wu’s research interests focus on the physics of living matter and quantitative biology. The research that has received the award focuses on the self-organisation and emergent mechanics of living active matter, aiming to establish a series of novel physical mechanisms for spatiotemporal ordering in living matter and to discover design principles of autonomous living materials with emerging mechanical functionalities for biomedicine and soft robotics.