Yuan Group

Since June 2021 Director of the Stockholm Material Hub, Stockholm Trio, Sweden.

Since December 2018 Full Professor at Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

2018 Associate Professor at Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

2017 Associate Professor at Clarkson University, New York State, USA.

2015-2016 Senior research group leader and ERC Starting Grant project leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany.

2013-2017 Associate member in International Max Planck Research School "Multiscale Biosystems".

2011-2014 Junior research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany.

2009-2010 Post-doc researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany.

2011-2015 Habilitation in Polymer/Colloid Chemistry at University of Potsdam, Germany, "Poly(ionic liquid)s: innovative polyelectrolytes for materials application", supervised by Professor Markus Antonietti.

2005-2009 PhD in polymer chemistry, summa cum laude, at University of Bayreuth, Germany, "One-dimensional hybrid nanomaterials based on cylindrical polymer brushes", supervised by Professor Axel H. E. Mueller.

2002-2004 M.Sc. in macromolecular chemistry, University of Siegen, Germany, "Study of Reactions of Melamine Model Compounds with Isocyanates", supervised by Professor Werner Mormann.

1998-2002 B.Eng. in applied chemistry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China, supervised by Professor Xuefeng Qian.

2026 Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc).

2021 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant Award.

2020-2021 Guest Professor at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

2017 Wallenberg Academy Fellowship from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden.

2016 Dozentenpreis des Fonds, Career Award for Young Chemists, from the Foundation of German Chemical Industry (FCI).

2015 Dr. Hermann-Schnell Award, Career Award for Young Polymer Scientists, of the German Chemical Society (GDCh).

2014 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Award, "Nanoporous Asymmetric Poly(Ionic Liquid) Membranes" NAPOLI-639720.

2013-2015 Best Performance Annual Award, "Gewaehrung einer Leistungspraemie", at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany.

2009-2010 Max Planck Society Postdoc Fellowship.

2009 Otto-Warburg Award in Bayreuth, Germany for Best PhD Thesis.

Member of Young Academy of Europe (YAE, 2015-2022).

Wallenberg Academy Fellow (WAF, 2017-).

Senior Editor for Accounts of Materials Research (American Chemical Society) since 2022.

International advisory board member of the State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, China (2020-).

Associate Editor for Nano Select (Wiley-VCH) since February 2020.

Advisory board member for Macromolecular Rapid Communications and Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics (Wiley-VCH) since 2017.

Editorial board member of Applied Materials Today (Elsevier) since 2015.

Editorial board member for Scientific Reports from Nature Publishing Group since 2018.

Editorial board member of Liquids (MDPI) since 2020.

Associate Editor and acting Editor for the Journal of Macromolecular Science Part A: Pure and Applied Chemistry (Taylor & Francis Group, 2018-2019).

Member of the International Polymer Colloids Group (IPCG, 2019-).

Co-organizer of the international symposium "Polymer (nano)structure for emerging science and technology" at Clarkson University, USA, March 2018.

Co-organizer of the ACS Fall meeting symposium "Ionic Liquids in Polymer Science and Engineering: From Molecular Design to Energy Technologies and Beyond", Boston, August 2018.

Co-organizer of the MRS Spring meeting symposium "Functional (bio)polymers for energy and environmental applications", Phoenix, April 2018.

Co-organizer of the ACS Fall meeting symposium "Ionic Liquids in Polymer Design: from Energy to Health", Boston, August 2015.

Organizer of workshop for Marie-Curie-ITN RENAISSANCE in Potsdam, Germany (2012).

Guest co-editor of the special issue "Poly(ionic liquid)s in Polymer Science and Engineering" in Polymer International (2019, Volume 68, Issue 9).

Guest co-editor of the special issue "Ionic Liquids in Polymer Design" in Macromolecular Rapid Communications (2016, Volume 37, Issue 14).

Guest co-editor of the special issue "Polymerized Ionic Liquids for Emerging Technology" in Polymer (2014, Volume 55, Issue 16).

Referee service for journals, 80+ manuscripts per year: Sci. Adv., Adv. Sci., Matter, Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., ACS Nano, Nano Lett., Nano Energy, Chem. Mater., Macromolecules, J. Mater. Chem. A/B/C, etc.

Carl-Zeiss-Foundation in Germany (2012).

Department of Energy in USA (2014).

ACS PRF in USA (2015), Israel Science Foundation (2015), French National Research Agency (2015), Estonian Science Foundation (2015), Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Fund (2015).

European Research Council H2020 FET-OPEN external reviewer (2016-2019), National Science Foundation of USA (2016).

Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation (2017).

Frontier Research in Chemistry (FRC, 2019).

Swedish Research Council panel member (VR, NT18, 2020); European Research Council Advanced Grant (ERC-ADG, 2020); Swedish Research Council Formas (2020); ETH Zurich Research Commission (2020); National Science Foundation (USA, 2020); Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (2020).

2019-2023 VR (Swedish Research Council) grant.

2019-2021 STINT mobility fund.

2018-2020 Stockholm University strategic funds.

2018-2023 Wallenberg Academy Fellowship.

2017 Startup Grant in Clarkson University, terminated from 2018.

2016-2018 Foundation of German Chemical Industry (FCI), suspended from 2017.

2015-2021 ERC Starting Grant 2014 "Nanoporous Asymmetric Poly(Ionic Liquid) Membranes" (1.5 Mio. Euro), suspension period February-December 2017.

2015-2017 Host for Alexander von Humboldt Postdoc Fellowship, project "Conjugated Porous Ionic Networks and membranes".

2015-2019 EU project "High Energy Lithium Sulphur Cells and Batteries for Automotive Application (HELIS)" within Horizon 2020, joint project with Prof. Markus Antonietti.

2015-2016 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) project "When pillar[5]arenes meet poly(ionic liquid)s: host-guest interactions for shape-memory gels", with Zhejiang University, China.

2014-2016 Biomimetic actuator project within the International Max Planck Research School on "Multiscale Biosystems" in Potsdam/Berlin, Germany, joint project with Dr. John Dunlop.

2014-2015 MAXNET project "new binder for electrochemical devices", joint project with Prof. Markus Antonietti.

2012-2016 EU COST MP1202 "Rational design of hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces", role as Management Committee Supplementary; granted collaboration project with Stockholm University.

2012-2016 EU Marie-Curie ITN "Training network in innovative polyelectrolytes for energy and environment"; coordinator for the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and co-supervisor of 2 PhD students.

2012-2015 Joint International Laboratory between Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany and National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China.

2014-2015 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) project "Light-Absorption Enhanced PIL Membrane for Conversion of Solar Energy into Chemical Energy", with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Languages: Mandarin and Hefei dialect as native languages; English as working language; German as life language; Shanghai dialect understandable; Swedish in learning. Music and languages can "penetrate" and fundamentally reshape a soul.