Zixuan obtained a bachelors' degree at Hohai University in China and majored in harbour, waterway and coastal engineering. In the fourth year of her undergraduate, she finished a one-year exchange programme at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she studied hydrology and water resources engineering. Currently Zixuan focuses on a PhD programme on developing smart and resillient materials for future infrastructures in the geotechnical and environmental research group at the University of Cambridge.
