Yu Shao
Dr. Yu Shao is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, working with Dr. Gabriel Burks on the design of biodegradable composites derived from polysaccharides. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Chemistry from a joint graduate program between Donghua University and Peking University in 2019.
From 2019 to 2023, he worked as a co-PI in the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at Peking University. Before joining ND, he completed a 13-month postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell, where he focused on the synthesis of polymer-grafted nanoparticles. Dr. Yu Shao’s research interests encompass two main areas: designing of soft materials with emergent properties, including self-assembled soft alloys and chiral-induced spin-selective nanostructures, as well as in engineering degradation pathways of biopolymers from renewable feedstocks to advance sustainable plastics for environmental benefits.