Brains and brawn, muscular China academic offers free personal training to PhD candidates
Chemistry academic offers combination of study and exercise, says she wants to become ‘world’s most muscular professor’
An associate professor at a prestigious university in China has posted videos of her working out in the gym to recruit chemistry PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows.
Yang Xuemei, 31, from Harbin Institute of Technology’s Shenzhen campus in southern China began posting videos of herself training in gyms and showing off her muscles as “advertisements” to recruit new students on September 30.
In one video, Yang says: “Hello my future students, your doctoral supervisor is doing a 15kg weighted pull-up for you.”
Yang, from southwestern China’s Sichuan province, calls herself an “intellectual shrew” and a “Sichuan tyrannosaurus”.
Her university profile shows that she graduated from Nanjing University in eastern China’s Jiangsu province in 2015, and obtained her PhD in chemistry at Texas A&M University in the United States in 2020.
Her research area specialises in organometallic chemistry.
