Yujia Zhang graduated in 2016 with a BSc in Electronics and Information Science and Technology from the University of Science and Technology of China.

Later, he completed a DPhil in biomedical engineering and MEMS/NEMS technology at Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (Chinese Academy of Sciences), followed by one year of being a visiting scholar at Stony Brook University (The State University of New York).

In 2021, Yujia started his postdoctoral research at the Bayley group with focuses on the development of multifunctional smart droplet systems for biomedical engineering, soft implants, and synthetic tissues.