A warm welcome to Dr Yang Yang, who has joined University of Bristol as Lecturer in Financial Technology. Yang has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK, on the effect of nanoforces on the attachment of cells. He has also worked as Postdoctoral Research Associate in Finance at Tsinghua University, Beijing, where he explored wash trading in centralised crypto exchanges. Yang’s research interests include blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and decentralised finance.