**Yu Chen**

Dr. Yu Chen achieved both a Bachelor's degree (2006) and Master's degree (2009) in Materials Science at Sichuan University, and achieved a Ph.D. degree (2016) in Solid Mechanics after a joint educational project between Sichuan University and Liverpool University. He is currently an Associate Professor in Chengdu University. His main research interests focus on dielectric/piezoelectric/ferroelectric ceramics and their applications in smart sensing/actuating devices and energy harvest/storage/transformation systems.

To date, he has published over 40 papers in journals including *Materials & Design*, *Acta Materialia*, *Scripta Materialia*, the *Journal of Advanced Ceramics*, the *Journal of Materiomics*, the *Journal of the American Ceramic Society*, etc. Additionally, he has also obtained eight Chinese patents. Now, he acts as a Topical Advisory Panel Member of *Materials*, an Associated Editorial Committee Member for the *Journal of Advanced Ceramics*, as well as a Youth Member of the Editorial Board for the *Journal of Advanced Dielectrics*. In 2014, he won the Outstanding Paper Award from the Joint Conference of 9th Asian Meeting on Ferroelectrics & 9th Asian Meeting on Electroceramics (AMF-AMEC-2014). In 2018, he received the Innovation Talent Award of Ceramic Technology from The Chinese Ceramic Society. In 2022, his research group's project (High-temperature and High-performance Piezoelectric Ceramics) won the National Bronze Award in the 8th China International College Students' "Internet+" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
