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

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

- Solid Mechanics, Mechanomaterials, Nanomechanics, Fracture Mechanics

- Design and mechanics of micro/nanoarchitected materials

- Fracture of mechanical metamaterials

Dr. Yujia Wang’s research focuses on mechanomaterials, mechanical metamaterials, and nanoarchitected materials. Her work has been published in leading journals including Nature, 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.

2026 Outstanding Young Investigator Award

The Chinese Society of 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

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, Yangchengyi Liu, Kunlin Wu, Xuan Zhang, Hanzheng Xing, Songyan Zhang, Changhong Linghu, Yifan Wang, Xiaoyan Li^*, Huajian Gao^*. Programming Fracture Resistance in Metamaterials via Elastic Instabilities. Nature, 2026, 655(8125), 1167–1173.

2. Yujia Wang, Xuan Zhang, Hanzheng Xing, Songyan Zhang, Shuchang Li, Jingbin Qian, Bo Yang, Yingju Wu, Yuede Cao, Bin Ding, Xiaoyan Li^*. Mechanical Metamaterials: Emerging Trends in Fabrication, Geometry, Properties, and Functionalities Advanced Functional Materials, 2026, 36(64), e26917.

3. Yujia Wang^#, Guijin Zou^#, Huajian Gao^*. Mechano-X: A paradigm for mechanics-based interdisciplinary innovation. MechanoEngineering, 2026, 1(1), 010801.

4. 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)

5. 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.

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. 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.

10. Yujia Wang, Xiaoyan Li^*. Built from connected nested tubes. Nature Materials, 2021, 20(11), 1453-1454.