Yimin Wu

Dr. Yimin Wu is an assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology, Director of Materials Interfaces Foundry, at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Wu received his DPhil degree in Materials from the University of Oxford, UK in 2013. Then, he worked as a SinBeRise Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Prior to joining the faculty at Waterloo in 2019, he was focusing on the advanced catalysts and battery research in the Center for Nanoscale Materials and Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Argonne National Laboratory and worked as a research assistant professor at University of Illinois, USA.
He has authored and co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed journal papers, which includes Nature, Nature Energy, Nature communications. He is also listed as an inventor on 1 US/international patent. Wu has delivered over 20 invited lectures across the world in last 5 years.