Yilin Wu
Contact:
Room 306, Science Centre
Department of Physics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, P.R. China
Tel: (852) 39436354 Fax: (852) 26035204 Email: ylwu 'AT' cuhk.edu.hk
Education:
- University of Science and Technology of China, B.S. in Physics, 2004
- University of Notre Dame, Ph.D. in Physics, 2009
Employment:
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 2009-2012
- Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012 - 2018
- Associate Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2018 - present
Research and Professional Experience:
- Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Physics, and Center for the Study of Biocomplexity, University of Notre Dame, 2004 - 2009. Advisor: Mark S. Alber
- Student Visitor, Group of Mathematical Modeling and Analysis (T-7), Los Alamos National Laboratory, summer 2006. Advisor: Yi Jiang
- Student Visitor, Group of Mathematical Modeling and Analysis (T-7), Los Alamos National Laboratory, summer 2007. Advisor: Yi Jiang
- Graduate Research Assistant, Group of Mathematical Modeling and Analysis (T-7) and the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, summer 2008. Advisor: Yi Jiang
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Rowland Institute, and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 2009 - 2012. Advisor: Howard C. Berg
- Student, Cold Spring Harbor course in Advanced Bacterial Genetics, summer 2012.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012 - 2018
- Associate Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2018 - present
Awards and Honors:
- 2007, Scholarship and travel award, the First Q-bio Summer School and Conference, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sante Fe, New Mexico.
- 2009, Thesis award, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame.
- 2011, Semifinalist of Burroughs Wellcome Fund's Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI)
- 2017, Young Researcher Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2020-2025, RGC Research Fellow, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong SAR
Teaching:
- PHYS5450 Introduction to Soft Matter Physics (current)
- PHYS3403 Introduction to Soft and Living Matter Physics (current)
- PHYS1110 Engineering Physics: Mechanics and Thermodynamics (2014-2019)
Services:
- Faculty member in biophysics, F1000Prime (2020 - present)
- Graduate division head, Department of Physics, CUHK (2018 - present)
- Reviewer for PNAS, Soft Matter, PLoS Computational Biology, Biophysical Journal, Nature, Nature Physics, eLife, Europhysics Letters, Journal of Theoretical Biology, etc.