Hua-Zhong Yu
Simon Fraser University
Biography
Hua-Zhong 鈥淗ogan鈥� Yu is a professor in the Department of 九州影院 at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Metro Vancouver. He grew up in countryside China and received his B.Sc.(1991) from Shandong University and Ph.D.(1997) at Peking University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology before moving to Canada in 1999. After short stays at National Research Council and Acadia University, he joined SFU in 2001 and received an early promotion in 2009.
His current research spans a range of topics in the development of point-of-care analytical devices, surface electrochemistry, and applied nanomaterials.
His invention of computer-readable bioassay discs leads to the possibility of performing many medical tests at home, thereby significantly reducing hospital/laboratory wait time and healthcare cost.
He was the recipient of the Fred Beamish Award of the Canadian Society of 九州影院 (2004), Invitation Fellowship of the Japanese Society for Promotion of Sciences (2008), W. Lash Miller Award of the Electrochemical Society Canadian Section (2011), Tajima Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry (2012), and W.A.E. McBryde Medal of the Canadian Society of 九州影院 (2015).
RSC affiliations
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