Introduction
Dr. Yujia Wang is currently an Assistant Professor at the Mechano-X Institute, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University. She received her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanics from Tsinghua University in 2017 and 2022, respectively. From 2022 to 2024, she worked as a Scientist at the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore, and subsequently served as a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University from 2024 to 2025.
Address: Mechano-X Institute, Applied Mechanics Laboratory, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Email: wang-yujia@tsinghua.edu.cn
Education Background
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
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, A*STAR, Singapore
Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects
- Solid Mechanics, Mechanomaterials, Nanomechanics, Fracture Mechanics
- Design and mechanics of micro/nanoarchitected materials
- Fracture of mechanical metamaterials
Research Status
Dr. Yujia Wang’s research focuses on mechanomaterials, mechanical metamaterials, and nanoarchitected materials. Her work has been published in leading journals including Nature Materials, PNAS, Science Advances, and Nature Communications. She is a recipient of the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Overseas) from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Honors and Awards
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
Academic Achievement
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nfO2JG4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Representative Publications (#as co-first authors, *as corresponding authors)
1. Yujia Wang#, Guijin Zou#, Huajian Gao*. Mechano-X: A paradigm for mechanics-based interdisciplinary innovation. MechanoEngineering, 2026, 1(1), 010801.
2. 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)
3. 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.
4. Yujia Wang, Fan Xu, Huajian Gao*, Xiaoyan Li*. Elastically isotropic truss-plate-hybrid hierarchical microlattices with enhanced modulus and strength. Small, 2023, 19(18), 2206024. (Featured on Inside Back Cover)
5. 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)
6. 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)
7. 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.
8. Yujia Wang, Xiaoyan Li*. Built from connected nested tubes. Nature Materials, 2021, 20(11), 1453-1454.
