Associate Professor

Dr. Zhe Yu is currently professor, doctoral advisor, and principal investigator of Biomedical Microdevices Research Laboratory at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his B.E. degree in Materials Science & Engineering and M.S. degree in Biological Science & Biotechnology from Tsinghua University and received his Ph.D. of Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University. He then continued his research as a postdoctoral fellow in Nanotechnology Laboratory (Charles M. Lieber Group) in Harvard University. During the past decade, he has been working on research and development of biomedical micro-/nano-devices and their applications. He has published more than 20 research papers, including Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Letters, etc. His work has been featured and reported by MIT Technology Review, Nature Nanotechnology, and Innovation Valley Nano Alliance. His work is currently sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shenzhen Science, Technology and Innovation Commission. Dr. Yu is awarded as a young talent under Shenzhen “Peacock Plan” talents program in 2012. He is a member of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, American Chemical Society, Society for Neuroscience, and Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences.