Mechano-X Institute, Applied Mechanics Laboratory,
Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University
Beijing 100084, China
Email: wang-yujia@tsinghua.edu.cn
EDUCATION
2017/08-2022/06 Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics
Tsinghua University, China
2013/08-2017/07 B.S. in Engineering Mechanics
Tsien Excellence in Engineering Program (TEEP)
Tsinghua University, China
SCIENTIFIC WORK EXPERIENCE
2026/01 – Present Assistant Professor
Tsinghua University, China
2024/07 – 2025/12 Research Fellow
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2022/08 – 2024/06 Scientist
Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR, Singapore
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Solid Mechanics, Mechanomaterials, Nanomechanics, Fracture Mechanics
- Design and mechanics of micro/nanoarchitected materials
- Fracture of mechanical metamaterials
2025 Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas)
National Natural Science Foundation of China
2023 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (10 awardee per year nationally)
The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
2015 National Scholarship
Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
SUMMARY OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
Publications: first- and co-first-authored papers published in leadingjournals, including Nature Materials,Science Advances,Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Small, etc.
FULL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Research Papers (#as co-first authors, *as corresponding authors)
13. Yujia Wang#, Guijin Zou#, Huajian Gao*. Mechano-X: A paradigm for mechanics-based interdisciplinary innovation. MechanoEngineering, 2026, 1(1), 010801.
12. Hanzheng Xing#, Yujia Wang#, Songyan Zhang, Shuchang Li, Zihe Li, Ming Li, Xuan Zhang, Bin Ding, Zihang Xu, Xiaoyan Li*. Design, Fabrication, Mechanics, and Multifunctional Applications of Shell-Based Nanoarchitected Materials. Small Structures, 2025, e202500440
11. Yujia Wang, Huajian Gao*, Xiaoyan Li*. Machine learning-guided design of shell-based multistable lattices for superior energy absorption and reusability. Small, 2025, 2502789. (Featured on Inside Back Cover)
10. Yujia Wang, Kunlin Wu, Xuan Zhang, Xiaoyan Li*, Yifan Wang*, Huajian Gao*. Superior fracture resistance and topology-induced intrinsic toughening mechanism in 3D shell-based lattice metamaterials. Science Advances, 2024, 10(35), eadq2664.
9. Hanzheng Xing, Jiaxi Jiang, Yujia Wang, Yongpan Zeng, Xiaoyan Li*. Strengthening-softening transition and maximum strength in Schwarz nanocrystals. Nano Materials Science, 2024, 6(3), 320-328.
8. Hanzheng Xing, Xiangnan He, Yujia Wang, Xuan Zhang, Lei Li, Yecheng Wang, Zekun Cheng, Hui Wu, Qi Ge*, Xiaoyan Li*. Strong, tough, fatigue-resistant and 3D-printable hydrogel composites reinforced by aramid nanofibers. Materials Today, 2023, 68, 84-95.
6. Zihe Li#, Yujia Wang#, Mengdong Ma#, Huachun Ma#, Wentao Hu#, Xiang Zhang, Zewen Zhuge, Shuangshuang Zhang, Kun Luo, Yufei Gao, Lei Sun, Alexander V. Soldatov, Yingju Wu, Bing Liu, Baozhong Li, Pan Ying, Yang Zhang, Bo Xu, Julong He, Dongli Yu, Zhongyuan Liu, Zhisheng Zhao*, Yuanzheng Yue*, Yongjun Tian*, Xiaoyan Li*. Ultrastrong conductive in situ composite composed of nanodiamond incoherently embedded in disordered multilayer graphene. Nature Materials, 2023, 22(1), 42-49. (Highlighted by MIT Technology Review China, and in Research Briefing “Combining the properties of nanodiamond and disordered multilayer graphene”. Nature Materials, 2023, 22, 14-15)
5. Yujia Wang, Xuan Zhang, Zihe Li, Huajian Gao*, Xiaoyan Li*. Achieving the theoretical limit of strength in shell-based carbon nanolattices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022, 119(34), e2119536119. (Highlighted by MIT Technology Review China)
4. Yufei Sun#, Yujia Wang#, Enze Wang#, Bolun Wang#, Hengyi Zhao, Yongpan Zeng, Qinghua Zhang, Yonghuang Wu, Lin Gu, Xiaoyan Li*, Kai Liu*. Determining the interlayer shearing in twisted bilayer MoS2 by nanoindentation. Nature Communications, 2022, 13(1), 3898.
3. Yujia Wang, Xiaoyan Li*. Built from connected nested tubes. Nature Materials, 2021, 20(11), 1453-1454.
2. Yongpan Zeng, Qian Zhang, Yujia Wang, Jiaxi Jiang, Hanzheng Xing, Xiaoyan Li*. Toughening and crack healing mechanisms in nanotwinned diamond composites with various polytypes. Physical Review Letters, 2021, 127(6), 066101.
1. Xuan Zhang#, Yujia Wang#, Bing Ding, Xiaoyan Li*. Design, fabrication, and mechanics of 3D micro-/nanolattices. Small, 2020, 16(15), e1902842. (Featured on Back Cover)
