Yan Yu is a full professor of material science at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). She received her Ph.D. in material science at USTC in 2006. From 2007 to 2008, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Florida International University. After that she received a Humboldt Research Fellowship and the Sofja Kovalevskaja award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Solid-State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. Her current research interests mainly include the design of novel nanomaterials for clean energy, especially for batteries and the fundamental science of energy-storage systems. She was selected as a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Materials Science. She also received several awards and honors, such as the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, The 16th China Youth Science and Technology Award, Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry, etc.

Professional Activities and Memberships


2024 – up to now           Advisory Board Member, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, ACS
2024 – up to now           Senior Editorial Board Member, Materials Today
2022 – up to now           Advisory Board Member, SmartMat,Wiley
2022 – up to now           Advisory Board Member, escience, KeAi Publishing
2022 – up to now           Advisory Board Member, interdisciplinary materials , Wiley
2022 – up to now           Advisory Board Member, Materials Today Sustainability, Elsevier
2022 – up to now           Advisory Board Member, Small Methods, Wiley
2022 – up to now           Advisory Board Member, Advanced Energy Materials, Wiley
2022 – up to now           Advisory Board Member, Energy & Environmental Science, RSC
2021 – up to now           Advisory Board Member, Nano Research
2021 – up to now           Advisory Board Member, Small Science, Wiley
2020 – up to now           Advisory Board Member, ACS Energy Letters, ACS
2020 – up to now           Advisory Board Member, Energy Storage Materials, Elsevier
2020 – up to now           Advisory Board Member, Journal of Energy Chemistry
2019 – up to now           Associate editor, Journal of Power Sources, Elsevier
2019 – up to now          《硅酸盐学报》编委
2019 – up to now           Advisory Board Member, Green Energy &Environmental (GEE)
2018 – up to now           Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry,FRSC
2018 – up to now           Advisory Board Member, Chinese Chemical Letters
2018 – up to now           Advisory Board Member, Rare metals
2018 – up to now          《物理化学学报》编委
2017 – up to now          《储能科学与技术》编委