YU IRU
Unit Leader : Hsiao-hua Yu
Hsiao-hua
(Bruce) Yu was born
in Taipei, Taiwan. He received his B.S.
degree in chemistry from National Taiwan University (Prof.
Man-kit Leung
and Prof. Tien-Yau Luh) and
his Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in organic
chemistry (Prof. Timothy M.
Swager). He became interested in
chemistry when he was young and he was the first gold medalist for
Taiwan in
the International Chemistry Olympiad competition. He worked on design,
syntheses, and applications of molecular actuators for actuating and
sensing
applications. After completing his postdoctoral research in Institute
for
Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Prof.
Paula T.
Hammond), he joined Institute
of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore as a Team Leader and
Senior
Research Scientist. In Singapore, his research focus on utilizing
organic
conductive materials, particularly conducting polymers for biosensors.
In 2008,
he received an Initiative Research Unit fund from RIKEN, the most
prestigious
research institute in Japan, as a young principle investigator to work
on the
area “synthetic
organic chemistry directed toward materials science”. He relocated to
Japan and
initiated a research concept he described as “organic conductive
biomaterials”,
where he develops an
independent and multidisciplinary research
program though the triangle of chemistry, electronic materials, and
biomedical/biological investigations based on molecular and
nano-assembled
building blocks of conducting polymers. He is not limited his work in
science
and technology level and eager to see real applications blossomed from
the
crossroads
among molecular science, nanotechnology and biotechnology.