• Yuwei Gu
  • Assistant Professor
  • Research Synopsis: Our group combines polymer/organic synthesis, biomacromolecular engineering, and materials chemistry to develop macromolecular systems that possess life-like features.
  • Location: CCB-3202
  • Phone: 848-445-7030

 Group Website

Education

  • B.S., Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2010 - 2014 
  • Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014 – 2019
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, 2019 - 2022

Awards

  • ACS PMSE Division Future Faculty Scholar, 2021
  • Weinberg Family Postdoctoral Fellowship, Northwestern International Institute for Nanotechnology, 2021
  • Reaxys PhD Prize, Finalist, Elsevier, 2019
  • Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research, AIChE,2018
  • Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research, ACS, 2018
  • Outstanding POLY Poster Award, ACS, 2018
  • ExxonMobil-MIT Energy Fellow, 2017
  • Department of Chemistry Award for Outstanding Teaching, MIT, 2016
  • T. P. Hou Award, Tsinghua University, 2014

 

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