A warm welcome to Mr Yanzhen Li, who joins us this month to begin his PhD studies, supervised by Dr Zining Wang, and Prof Dave Cliff. Yanzhen joins us from the Beijing Normal University, here he received an MSc in Systems Science. Yanzhen’s PhD is funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) - University of Bristol (UoB) PhD Scholarships Programme, and his research will explore agent-based simulation modelling and mechanism design in blockchain ecosystem.