Education
Mar. 2007 - Mar. 2011   PhD, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia
Apr. 2005 - Mar. 2006   Exchange scholar, School of Engineering/Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Queensland, Australia
Sept. 2003 - Dec. 2006   MSc, Department of Physics, Fudan University, China
Sept. 1999 - Jul. 2003     BSc, Department of Physics, Fudan University, China

Working Experience
Nov. 2018 – Now           Professor, Huaqiao University
Jan. 2017 – Nov.2018     Research fellow, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia
Jan. 2014 – Dec. 2016     Research fellow (ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award), School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia
Feb. 2011 - Dec2013       Research fellow (ARC linkage project funded), School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia

Research Interests
Manufacturing and mechanical property characterization of variety of materials, including semiconductor, soft brittle materials.
Crystal structure characterization (SEM/TEM/Synchrotron XRD) of nanostructure and new materials.
Nano-scartching and nanoindentation induced deformation of semiconductor, soft brittle materials.

Awards＆Honors
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) (2014-2016).
Australian Fracture Group Award (only one) on International Conference on Structural Integrity and Failure/International Conference on Failure Analysis and Maintenance Technologies, 09-11, Jul., 2008 Perth, Australia.
The Professor Gordon Dunlop Prize for best presentation related to Materials on School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering Postgraduate Student Conference, 2nd Nov. 2009

Research Projects
1. Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) (2014-2016), project title: “Understanding failure mechanisms in micro-solder joints in three dimensional integrated circuit packaging”
2. ARC discovery project (2013-2015), project title: “Developing a simple method for characterising the mechanical properties of nanowhiskers”
3. UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund (2012), project title: “Nanoscratching-induced deformation of soft-brittle materials”

Papers＆Publications
1.YQ Wu, DK Mu and H Huang*, “Deformation and removal of semiconductor and laser single crystals at extremely small scales”, International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, 2 (2020) 012006.
2.YQ Wu*, S Gao, RK Kang and H Huang*, “Deformation patterns and fracture stress of single crystal β-Ga2O3 obtained using compression of micro-pillars”, Journal of Materials Science, 54 (2019) 1958-1966. (影响因子3.442)
3.YQ Wu*, S Gao and H Huang*, “The deformation pattern of single crystal β-Ga2O3 under nanoindentation”, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 71 (2017) 321-325. (影响因子2.722)
4.YQ Wu, S.D. McDonald, J. Read, H. Huang and K. Nogita*, “Determination of the minimum Ni concentration to prevent the ŋ to ŋ4+1 polymorphic transformation of stoichiometric Cu6Sn5”, Scripta Materialia, 68 (2013) 595-598. (影响因子4.539)
5.YQ Wu, J.C. Barry, T, Yamamoto, Q.F. Gu, S.D. McDonald, S. Matsumura, H. Huang and K. Nogita*, “A new phase in stoichiometric Cu6Sn5”, Acta Materialia, 60 (2012) 6581. (影响因子7.293)
6.YQ Wu, H Huang* and J Zou*, “Lattice bending in monocrystalline GaAs induced by nanoscratching”, Materials Letters 80 (2012) 187-190. (影响因子3.019)
7.YQ Wu, H Huang* and J Zou, “Transmission electron microscopy characterisation of the deformation of CdZnTe single crystals induced by nanoscratching” Scripta Materialia, 65 (2011) 392. (影响因子4.539)
8.YQ Wu, H Huang*, J Zou*, LC Zhang and JM Dell, “Nanoscratch-induced phase transformation of monocrystalline Si”, Scripta Materialia, 63 (2010) 847. (影响因子4.539)
9.YX Hu, YQ Wu, C Devendran, J Wei, Y Liang, M Matsukata, W Shen, A Neild, H Huang, and HT Wang*, “Preparation of Nanoporous Graphene Oxide by Nanocrystal-masked Etching: Toward Nacre-mimetic Metal Organic Framework Molecular Sieving Membrane”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5 (2017) 16255-16262. (影响因子10.733)
10.SL Wang, YQ Wu, LW Lin, YH He, H Huang*, “Fracture strain of SiC nanowires and direct evidence of electron-beam induced amorphisation in the strained nanowires”, Small, 11 (2015) 1672-1676. (影响因子10.856)

Contact Information
Tel: +86-18850576737
E-mail: yqwu@hqu.edu.cn