Lia Li

CEO

Zero Point Motion

Dr. Ying Lia Li (Lia) is the CEO and Founder of Zero Point Motion (ZPM), an early stage startup creating chipscale optical inertial sensors. Lia was awarded the 2021 Institute of Physics Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize, is a 2022 Innovate UK Women in Innovation Awardee and 2023 Sensors Converge Woman of the Year. Lia founded ZPM in 2020, setting up the company in Bristol, UK, after raising £2.658m seed investment. ZPM is a fabless B2B business developing and supplying high performance inertial sensors – chip scale gyroscopes and accelerometers packaged into 6-axis inertial measurement units (IMUs). Utilising the micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) supply chain used to manufacture existing chip scale inertial sensors, and exploit new developments in manufacturing chip scale photonic integrated circuits (PICs) to create IMUs with improved sensing abilities at lower noise levels than the traditional MEMS-only approach. Our vision is to create a new class of navigation devices which work everywhere, indoors or outdoors, in-hand or in-vehicle, free from the constraints of satellite-derived positioning.