A muscle-bound academic in China is offering a combination of brain and brawn studies to PhD and doctoral students. - Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
BEIJING: 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.
