Zhaoju Yu

Zhaoju Yu is a full professor in the College of Materials at the Xiamen University, China. She received her PhD in Polymer Chemistry and Physics at the Wuhan University in 2004. Since then, she joined the Xiamen University as a staff. Between 2012 and 2013, she held a scholarship at the Materials and Geosciences Department of the Technische Universität Darmstadt with Prof. Ralf Riedel, which was funded by China Scholarship Council (CSC) for Visiting Professors. She has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and 8 patents. In addition, she presented 33 invited talks at international academic conferences. These talks highlight her interests, covering a variety of different hot topics in materials chemistry as well as in materials science and nanotechnology ranging from synthesis of preceramic polymers to polymer-derived nanoscaled ceramics and characterization of their structural and functional properties.

Yu is the recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship awarded in 2016 and is guest professor in the frame of an international scientist exchange program with the research group “Disperse Feststoffe” at the Materials and Geosciences Department of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. She serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Ceramic Society and Ceramics International and was Guest Editor-in-chief for the Journal of the European Ceramic Society. Additionally, she is on the editorial boards for several journals such as Journal of Advanced Ceramics, Materials, and Advanced Powder Materials. She is the deputy director of the Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramic Fibers (Xiamen University), Ministry of Education, China.

Yu’s research fields include ceramic nanocomposites, ceramic fibers and silicone-based polymer materials. In particular, her research work is focused on i) advanced Si-based ceramic nanocomposites containing nanocarbon phase by molecular approach; and ii) the correlation of the molecular structure of preceramic polymers with the microstructure and properties of the ceramic materials obtained therefrom.