Academic Appointment:

• July 2023 - Present: Professor of Mathematics, Wuhan University

• August 2020 - June 2023: J.J. Sylvester Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Education:

• January 2017 - July 2020: Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Advisor: Prof. Juncheng Wei

• September 2014 - December 2016: M.Sc. in Mathematics, Wuhan University, Advisor: Prof. Hua Chen

• September 2010 - June 2014: B.Sc. in Mathematics, Wuhan University

Publications:

• Yannick Sire, Yantao Wu and Yifu Zhou, Global existence of weak solutions to the two dimensional nematic liquid crystal flow with partially free boundary, J. Lond. Math. Soc. (2) 110 (2024), no. 5, Paper No. e70008.

• Zaizheng Li, Juncheng Wei, Qidi Zhang and Yifu Zhou, Long-time dynamics for the energy critical heat equation in R5, Nonlinear Anal. 247 (2024), Paper No. 113594.

• Juncheng Wei, Qidi Zhang and Yifu Zhou, On Fila-King conjecture in dimension four, J. Differential Equations. 398 (2024), 38–140.

• Fanghua Lin, Yannick Sire, Juncheng Wei and Yifu Zhou, Nematic liquid crystal flow with partially free boundary, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 247 (2023), no. 2, 20. 76 (35).

• Chen-Chih Lai, Juncheng Wei and Yifu Zhou, Global existence of free-energy solutions to the 2D Patlak-Keller–Segel–Navier–Stokes system with critical and subcritical mass, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 72 No. 1 (2023), 43–87. 

• Juncheng Wei, Qidi Zhang and Yifu Zhou, On the Parabolic Gluing Method and Singularity Formation, C. R. Math. Rep. Acad. Sci. Canada Vol. 44 (4) 2022, pp. 69–121. 

• Chen-Chih Lai, Fanghua Lin, Changyou Wang, Juncheng Wei and Yifu Zhou, Finite time blow-up for the nematic liquid crystal flow in dimension two, Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 75 (2022), no.1, 128–196. 

• Manuel del Pino, Monica Musso, Juncheng Wei and Yifu Zhou, Type II finite time blow-up for the energy critical heat equation in R4. Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 40 (2020), no. 6, 3327–3355. 

• Guoyuan Chen, Juncheng Wei and Yifu Zhou, Finite time blow-up for the fractional critical heat equation in Rn, Nonlinear Anal. 193 (2020), 111420. 

• Chunhua Wang, Juncheng Wei, Suting Wei and Yifu Zhou, Infinite time blow-up for critical heat equation with drift terms, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 59 (2020), no. 1, Paper No. 3. 

• Monica Musso, Yannick Sire, Juncheng Wei, Youquan Zheng and Yifu Zhou, Infinite time blow-up for the fractional heat equation with critical exponent, Math. Ann. 375 (2019), no.1–2, 361–424. 

• Hua Chen and Yifu Zhou, Lower bounds of eigenvalues for a class of bi-subelliptic operators, J. Differential Equations 262 (2017), no. 12, 5860–5879.  

Preprints:

• Juncheng Wei and Yifu Zhou, Some global solutions to the energy-critical semilinear heat equation (in memory of Professor Marek Fila), preprint, 2024.

• Yannick Sire, Juncheng Wei, Youquan Zheng and Yifu Zhou, Finite-time singularity formation for the heat flow of the H-system, preprint, arXiv:2311.14336, 2023. 

• Juncheng Wei, Qidi Zhang and Yifu Zhou, Trichotomy dynamics of the 1-equivariant harmonic map flow, preprint, arXiv:2301.09221, 2023. 

• Juncheng Wei, Qidi Zhang and Yifu Zhou, Finite-time singularity formations for the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in dimension two, preprint, arXiv:2210.05800, 2022. 

• Manuel del Pino, Chen-Chih Lai, Monica Musso, Juncheng Wei and Yifu Zhou, New type II finite time blow-up for the energy supercritical heat equation, preprint, arXiv:2006.00716, 2020. 

• Manuel del Pino, Monica Musso, Juncheng Wei, Qidi Zhang and Yifu Zhou, Type II finite time blow-up for the three dimensional energy critical heat equation, preprint, arXiv:2002.05765, 2020. 

Teaching:

• At WHU: PDEs & Calculus (Fall 2024), Functional Analysis (Spring 2024), Calculus (Fall 2023).

• At JHU: Methods of Complex Analysis (Spring 2023), Methods of Complex Analysis & Differential Equations with Applications (Fall 2022), PDE II & Complex Variables (graduate courses, Spring 2022), Methods of Complex Analysis (Fall 2021), Calculus I (Biology and Social Sciences) (Spring 2021 & Fall 2020).

• At UBC: Integral Calculus (Term 2, 2019).