Meet the Team

Yuanyuan Zhu

 

Yuanyuan Zhu

Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering,
and Institute of Materials Science
Director,
InToEMCenter, UConn Tech Park
University of Connecticut

Email yuanyuan.2.zhu@uconn.edu
Phone +1(860)-486-2378
Mailing Address Materials Science and Engineering Attn: Yuanyuan Zhu, 25 King Hill Road, Storrs, CT 06269-3136
Office Science 1, Room 1015
Campus Storrs
Teaching
  • MSE 2001: Introduction to Structure, Properties, and Processing of Materials I
  • MSE 5323: Transmission Electron Microscopy of Materials

Awards
NSF Early Career award. 2023
DOE Early Career award. 2022
Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) award, American Chemical Society. 2020

Appointment
2017-2018 Staff Scientist, PNNL
2015-2017 Postdoctoral Research Associate, PNNL
2013-2015 Postdoctoral Researcher, HaldorTopsøeA/S 

Professional Preparation
2013 Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
2009 M.S., Solid Atomic Imaging Division, Institute of Metal Research
2006 B.S., Metallic Materials Engineering, Sichuan University

 


Dr. Rajat Sainju
Email: rajat.sainju@uconn.edu
Postdoctoral Researcher Associate
Institute of Materials Science

 

 

Tianyu Li
Email:
tianyu.li@uconn.edu
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Materials Science and Engineering


Dr. Manisha De Alwis Goonatilleke
Email: qcd24002@uconn.edu
Postdoctoral Researcher Associate
Institute of Materials Science


Amutheesan Jeyaveerasigamani
Email:
nru24001@uconn.edu
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Group Alumni

Monia Runge Nielsen, Postdoc, National Centre for Nano Fabrication and Characterization, DTU

Samuel Schaefer, B.S., Department of Materials Science and Engineering, current position: Ph.D. Student, Yale University

Megan Jankovsky, B.S., Department of Materials Science and Engineering, current position: Product Developer, Unilever

Steiny Duong, B.S., Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UConn undergrad