Dr Yu Jia is currently a lecturer at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Chester, and the group leader of the Smart Microsystems Research Group. Yu Jia received a First Class (Honours) in MEng Electromechanical Engineering at the School of Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Southampton in 2010, and PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge in 2014. He was then a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge for a year. He is the co-founder of the Cambridge spinout company 8power Ltd. His research interests involve vibration energy harvesting, micro-electromechanical systems, nonlinear vibration dynamics and smart integrated systems.