Yuyao Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor | Ph.D. Supervisor
Xiamen University

Joined the College of the Environment and Ecology at Xiamen University in 2026. Received B.S. (2017) and Ph.D. (2022) degrees from Zhejiang University under the supervision of Baoliang Chen. Conducted joint doctoral training at Nanyang Technological University.

Worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University from 2022 to 2025 under the supervision of Jaehong Kim.

Research interests include environmental functional materials and pollution control, as well as in situ characterization techniques for environmental interfaces.

Principal investigator of projects funded by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Young Scientists Fund). Published 27 SCI-indexed papers, including 14 as first/corresponding author, in journals such as Environmental Science & Technology. Applied for 2 invention patents.