Dr Yiwei Sun
BSc, PhD, FHEA, MIMMM
Lecturer in Materials Science and Engineering Education Transnational Education
Centre Education Lead (CREME); Graduate Attribute Lead (QMES)
Engineering 329, Mile End
| Expertise: | Dr Yiwei Sun studies how to teach engineering better: how to assess students fairly now that AI can write their coursework, how to form project teams so that no one is left out or carries the group, and how to use data to spot students who are struggling before they fail. He teaches on Queen Mary's joint engineering programme in Xi'an, China. His scientific background is in graphene, the single layer of carbon atoms, and how it behaves under pressure, in different atmospheres and in electronic devices, studied with laser spectroscopy and computer simulation. |
| Research Centre: | Research in Engineering and Materials Education |
| Affiliations: | Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA); Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (MIMMM); member of the SEMS Centre for Research in Engineering and Materials Education (CREME), where he is Centre Education Lead; member of the American Physical Society, the European High Pressure Research Group and the International Association for the Advancement of High Pressure Science and Technology. |
Brief Biography
Dr Yiwei Sun read Physics at Fudan University, Shanghai, and completed his PhD in Physics at Queen Mary University of London in 2015. He then held postdoctoral and research-fellow posts at Zhejiang University, the University of Birmingham and Queen Mary (QMUL Early Career Research Impact Award), taught Advanced Ceramics as a Teaching Fellow on the QMES programme in Xi'an, and spent three years as a Scientist at Paragraf Ltd, the Cambridge graphene-electronics company. He joined SEMS as a Lecturer (Teaching and Scholarship) in September 2025 and teaches polymers, ceramics, polymer devices and experimental methods on the QMES transnational programme in London and Xi'an. He is a Fellow of Advance HE and a Member of IOM3, and serves as Centre Education Lead for CREME and Graduate Attribute Lead for QMES.