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Yu Zou

Associate Professor

Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

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  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  • +1 (416) 946-7236
  • Rm PT172A, 184 College St, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E4, Canada

BIO

Dr. Yu Zou joined the MSE Department at U of T as an Assistant Professor in January 2018, after working as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He received his doctorate, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees from ETH Zurich, McGill University, and Beihang University, respectively, all in Materials Science and Engineering. He was also a JSPS visiting scholar at Kyoto University.

At U of T, Dr. Zou leads the Laboratory for Extreme Mechanics & Additive Manufacturing (LEMAM) and the research topics of his group include the design of novel metallic materials, multiscale mechanical testing, metal additive manufacturing (3D printing) and applied machine learning. At U of T, Dr. Zou is teaching “Mechanical behaviour of materials”, “Fracture and failure of materials” and “Additive manufacturing of advanced engineering materials”. Dr. Zou is currently serving as the Chair of Materials Technical Section in the Metallurgy and Materials Society of CIM (MetSoc) in Canada.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Toronto, Canada1 Jan 2018 - present
  • Assistant Professor (Non-budgetary cross-appointment)
    University of Toronto, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Canada1 Jul 2018 - present

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States2016 - 2017
  • Graduate Research Assistant
    ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland2011 - 2016
  • Visiting Scholar
    Kyoto University, Japan2014 - 2015

DEGREES

  • PhD in Materials Science
    ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland2011 - 2016
  • MEng in Materials Science
    McGill University, Montreal, Canada2007 - 2010
  • BEng in Material Science & Engineering
    Beihang University, Beijing, China2003 - 2007

LANGUAGES

  • Chinese (Mandarin)
  • English

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • Acceleration Consortium
  • Climate Positive Energy (CPE)
  • Data Sciences Institute (DSI)