Yuwei Gu
Experience
2023–present
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2019–2022
Weinberg Family Postdoctoral Fellow & Postdoctoral Associate
International Institute for Nanotechnology & Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University
with Prof. Chad A. Mirkin
2014–2019
Ph.D. in Chemistry
Department of Chemistry & Program in Polymers and Soft Matter
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
with Prof. Jeremiah A. Johnson
07/2013–09/2013
Visiting Student Researcher
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
with Prof. Steve Granick
2010–2014
B.S. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Department of Chemistry
Tsinghua University
with Prof. Huaping Xu

- CCB-3202
- (848)445-7030
- yuwei.gu@rutgers.edu
Selected Awards
2021 ACS PMSE Division Future Faculty Scholar
2021 Weinberg Family Postdoctoral Fellowship
2019 Reaxys PhD Prize, Finalist
2019 Outstanding Self-Financed Chinese Students Abroad Extraordinary Prize
2018 Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research, AIChE
2018 Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research, ACS
2018 Outstanding POLY Poster Award, ACS
2017 ExxonMobil-MIT Energy Fellow
2016 Department of Chemistry Award for Outstanding Teaching, MIT
2014 T. P. Hou Award, Tsinghua University