Zheng Yu, ‘rising star’ in chemical engineering from MIT, quits US for China
The researcher who specialises in wearable devices has taken up a position at Peking University
A leading young Chinese chemical engineer has left the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to return home to Peking University.
Zheng Yu recently completed her postdoctoral training in bioelectronics in the US but has now joined the Chinese university’s college of chemistry and molecular engineering as an assistant professor.
According to her Peking University webpage, Zheng is working on wearable and implantable electronic devices, such as smart bandages that are used to monitor health.
Her research focuses on special materials that allow electronic devices to understand the biological signals sent by the body.
Zheng graduated from Nankai University in Tianjin in 2017 before heading to Stanford University in the US for her PhD, where she worked with Zhenan Bao, a chemical engineer best known for her work in areas such as flexible electronics and electronic skin.
She has spent the past three years at MIT, where she was selected for the university’s rising stars programme in chemical engineering in 2022.