Rate My Professor Michael Yu

Professor Yu's distinguished career includes prestigious appointments such as Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow (2009), UQ Vice-Chancellor’s Research Focused Fellowship (2015), and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Leadership L3 Fellowship. His accolades encompass the 2015 Le Févre Memorial Prize for Chemistry awarded by the Australian Academy of Science and the second prize of the National Science Award of China (2004). He has authored over 420 peer-reviewed publications, accumulating more than 36,800 citations with an h-index of 104 (Google Scholar). Notable publications include "Ordered mesoporous polymers and homologous carbon frameworks: amphiphilic surfactant templating and direct transformation" (2005, cited 1813 times), "Nanoparticle vaccines" (2014, 1263 citations), "Antibiotic-free antibacterial strategies enabled by nanomaterials: progress and perspectives" (2020, 875 citations), "Dendritic Mesoporous Nanoparticles: Structure, Synthesis and Properties" (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021), and "Clinical translation of silica nanoparticles" (Nat. Rev. Mater., 2021). Professor Yu serves as Associate Editor for Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Materials Advances (Royal Society of Chemistry), acts as a referee for over 60 international journals, reviews grants for ARC and NHMRC, and has delivered more than 70 plenary, keynote, and invited lectures worldwide.