Academic Overview

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You-Jie Yu is an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator in the School of Chemistry at Nanjing University. He is a recipient of the National Youth Talent Program (Overseas). His research focuses on catalytic transformations mediated by main-group element redox processes.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Science and Technology of China under the supervision of Prof. Yi-Feng Wang. He then carried out postdoctoral research with Prof. Ryan Gilmour at the University of Münster and with Prof. Jie-Ping Zhu at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

 

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Career Path

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Dec 2025 – present

Associate Professor and Principal Investigator, School of Chemistry, Nanjing University

Feb 2024 – Nov 2025

Postdoctoral Researcher, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), with Prof. Jie-Ping Zhu

Aug 2021 – Jul 2023

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Münster, with Prof. Ryan Gilmour

Sep 2015 – Jun 2021

Ph.D., University of Science and Technology of China, with Prof. Yi-Feng Wang

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Honors & Awards

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2025 National Youth Talent Program (Overseas)（国家级青年人才计划（海外））

2022 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院优秀博士学位论文）

2021 President’s Special Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院院长特别奖）

2021 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学优秀博士学位论文）