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    Zhenwei Yao 

Title: Distinguished Research Fellow
Email: zyao@sjtu.edu.cn
Address: Room 511B , Pao Yue-Kong Library
Related Links: http://www.physics.sjtu.edu.cn/yaozhenwei
Area of Physics: Theoretical and Computational Soft Matter Physics
 
Research Interests:

1. Topological Defects
2. Elasticity and Geometry
3. Electrostatics in Soft Matters
  
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Zhenwei Yao received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Syracuse University in NY. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow and later promoted to Research Associate at Northwestern University in Illinois. In 2015, Dr. Yao was selected to the “Thousand Young Talents Program”, and joined the faculty of the Institute of Natural Sciences and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 
 
Selected Publications:  
1. Z. Yao and M. Olvera de la Cruz, Electrostatics-Driven Hierarchical Buckling of Charged Flexible Ribbons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 148101 (2016)
2. Z. Yao, Dressed active particles in spherical crystals, Soft Matter, 12, 7020 (2016)
3. Z. Yao and M. Olvera de la Cruz, Polydispersity-driven topological defects as order-restoring excitations, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 111, 5094 (2014)
4. Z. Yao and M. Olvera de la Cruz, Topological defects in flat geometry: the role of density inhomogeneity, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 115503 (2013)