About me
Research.
Training. Life.
I’m Zizi — a physiotherapist, researcher and someone who enjoys the work of getting stronger and building endurance.
A thread of movement.
I studied Sports and Exercise Science at Lancaster University before completing an MSc in Physiotherapy at the University of East Anglia. My undergraduate research used treadmill testing to examine how running power, heart rate and perceived effort relate to oxygen consumption.
That connection between physiology, measurement and real training still shapes the questions I ask.
From clinical practice to research.
I completed clinical training at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals. At the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS), I contributed to systematic-review methods during research training in late 2025. An earlier visit to the Dakin group introduced me to its musculoskeletal research.
I’m now based in Beijing as a pre-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Sports Medicine, Peking University, contributing to osteochondral imaging research in Professor Dong Jiang’s group. Alongside that work, I lead AnatoChain and independent studies of medical AI model selection and local validation.
Outside work
Training is part
of the picture.
Powerlifting and running have stayed part of my life throughout.
I enjoy the work of building strength and endurance: the consistency, the small adjustments and the satisfaction of doing something that was out of reach before.
It is something I do for myself, as well as something I study. And it keeps the questions about movement and recovery grounded in everyday experience.
Building PhyZio
Research begins
with a useful question.
I founded PhyZio to support doctors and physiotherapists who have research questions but limited access to data or methods expertise. The work combines consultation, analysis and tutoring around a real study.
One collaboration began with a physiotherapist’s observation about earlier mobilisation and recovery. We developed a testable question and used a suitable public dataset to investigate it.
How that study took shape