“The order I found was the order of disorder.” (William Saroyan, 1952)
“The order I found was the order of disorder.” (William Saroyan, 1952)
Born in Sichuan Province of China and raised in Hefei, Duyu obtained his B.S. in chemistry (chemical physics track) through the Physical Science Honors Bachelor Program at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2012.
Subsequently, he moved to Princeton and earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University in 2018. At Princeton, he was mainly trained as a soft matter theorist, working with Prof. Salvatore Torquato in the Complex Materials Theory Group. His research at Princeton was primarily centered on the use of a variety of theoretical and computational techniques from statistical mechanics, homogenization theory, and theoretical chemistry to inversely design and generate a variety of disordered and ordered soft-matter systems with exotic structural characteristics and desirable physical properties. He conducted postdoctoral research on computer simulations of block copolymers at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in Prof. Glenn H. Fredrickson's group. He joined the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering in the School of Chemistry and Materials Science at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) as a Specially-appointed Professor, leading an independent research group since July 2025.
He has published 30 research articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Acta Materialia, Macromolecules, to name a few. He has also served as an independent referee for over 10 journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Nature Communications, Nature Computational Science, Acta Materialia, Soft Matter, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Physical Review E, APL Photonics, among others. Additionally, he is an editorial board member of Materials Today Communications. He is open to new ideas, excited about new challenges and enjoys collaborations. Feel free to contact him (duyu@alumni.princeton.edu) if you find what he is doing is of interest to you.