Investigator

— Co-Investigator —

Dr. Yu Jing is a Nanyang Assistant Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a PhD in Chemical Engineering (2012). 

Following his PhD, Dr. Yu did a postdoc with Professor James Heath at California Institute of Technology, where he worked on engineered T cell immunotherapy. In 2014, Dr. Yu expanded his research interests towards polyelectrolytes brushes during his postdoc with Professor Matthew Tirrell at the University of Chicago. He is also an NRF Fellow, Class of 2019. 

The overall goal of Dr. Yu Jing’s research is to characterize the dynamic properties of interfaces with hierarchical structures and to gain molecular-level control of soft interfaces to enable the design of integrated, multifunctional interfaces. His work has been featured in various top journals, including Science, Science Advances, Nature Chemical Biology, PNAS, JACS, Advanced Materials.