Ping Yu is an Associate Professor, Researcher, and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University. She received her bachelor’s degree from Nankai University in 2004 and her Ph.D. from the Department of Physics, Fudan University in 2009. She subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics and the University of Regensburg in Germany. In 2016, she joined ShanghaiTech University, where her research focuses on the surface synthesis of carbon-based quantum nanomaterials and quantum magnetic probing. In 2022, she was selected as a “Eastern Scholar” Distinguished Professor of Shanghai universities.

• Precise fabrication of carbon-based quantum nanomaterials using surface synthesis techniques, and atomic-precision quantum magnetic probing and manipulation via low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy.

Bachelor’s degree from Nankai University (2004); Ph.D. in Physics from Fudan University (2009).

2009–2013: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, Germany

2013–2015: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Regensburg, Germany

2016–present: Tenured Associate Professor, ShanghaiTech University

2022: Selected as “Eastern Scholar” Distinguished Professor of Shanghai universities

2024: Young Scientist Award in Surface Physical Chemistry

(1) Fabrication of spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chains via combined on-surface synthesis and reduction for spinon detection

Xuelei Su#, Zhihao Ding#, Ye Hong#, Nan Ke, Kaking Yan*, Can Li*, Yi-Fan Jiang*, Ping Yu*

Nature Synthesis 4, 694-701 (2025) 

(2) Collective Magnetism of Spin Coronoid via On-Surface Synthesis

 Xujie Zhu†, Yashi Jiang†,Zhou Wang†, Yicheng Huang†, Zhengqiang Luo, KaKing Yan*, Shiyong 

 Wang*, and Ping Yu*

  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 147, 12, 10045–10051 (2025)

(3) Topological Structure Realized in Cove-Edged Graphene Nanoribbons via   Incorporation  of  Periodic    Pentagon Rings

Xujie Zhu#, Kezhen Li# , Liu Jian, Zhou Wang, Zhihao Ding, Yunlong Su, Bo Yang*, KaKing Yan*, Gang Li* and Ping Yu* 

 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 146, 7152 (2024)

(4) Orbital-symmetry effects on magnetic exchange in open-shell nanographenes

 Qingyang Du#, Xuelei Su#, Yufeng Liu#, Yashi Jiang#, Can Li, KaKing Yan, Ricardo Ortiz*, 

 Thomas Frederiksen*, Shiyong Wang* and Ping Yu*

 Nature Communications 14, Article number: 4802 (2023) 

 (5) On-Surface Synthesis of Triangulene Trimers via Dehydration Reaction

Suqin Cheng#, Zhijie Xue#, Can Li#, Yufeng Liu, Longjun Xiang, Youqi Ke, Kaking Yan, Shiyong Wang* and Ping Yu*

Nature Communications 13, 1705 (2022)

Research ID: 0000-0001-6361-8439