个人简历

Employment
Aug/2016– Associate Professor (Level I), Leader of the Colloidal Assembly Group
Frontier Institute of Science and Technology,Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Sept/2015–Aug/2016 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford, UK
Sept/2013–Aug/2015 Marie-Curie Fellow, University of Oxford, UK
Sept/2012–Aug/2013 Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California Santa Barbara, US
Nov/2010–Aug/2012 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
Dec/2008–Oct/2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Australian National University, Australia

Education
Sept/2002–Nov/2008 PhD (Soft Condensed Matter Physics), Department of Physics,
McGill University, Canada
Sept/1998–Jul/2002 B.Sc. (Condensed Matter Physics), Department of Physics, JiLin University, China

近期论文

1. Thermal Analog of Gimbal Lock in a Colloidal Ferromagnetic Janus Rod. Gao, Y.; Balin, A.K.; Dullens, R.P.A.;
Yeomans, J.M.; Aarts, D.G.A.L. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2015, 115, 248301.
2. Microdynamics and arrest of coarsening during spinodal decomposition in thermoreversible colloidal gels.
Gao, Y.; Kim, J.; Helgeson, M.E. Soft Matter 2015, 11, 6360 (Cover Article).
3. Texture Analysis Microscopy: Quantifying Structure in Low-Fidelity Images of Dense Fluids. Gao, Y.;
Helgeson, Optics Express 2014, 22, 10046.
4. Non-equilibrium Umbrella Sampling Applied to Force Spectroscopy of Soft Matter. Gao, Y.; Wang, G.M.;
Williams, D.R.M.; Williams, S.R.; Evans, D.J.; Sevick, E.M. J. Chem. Phys. 2012, 136, 054902.
5. Dynamics of Molecular Shock-absorbers: energy dissipation and the Fluctuation Theorem. Gao, Y.; Williams, D.R.M.; Sevick, E.M., Soft Matter 2011, 7, 5739.
6. A Model of a Homopolymer Brush as a Switch. Gao, Y.; Sevick, E.M. Macromolecules 2010, 43, 2042.
7. Accurate Detection and Complete Tracking of Large Populations of Features in Three Dimensions. Gao, Y.;
Kilfoil, M.L. Optics Express 2009, 17, 4685.
8. Intermittent and Spatially Heterogeneous Single-Particle Dynamics Close to Colloidal Gelation. Gao, Y.; Kilfoil, M.L. Phys. Rev. E 2009, 79, 051406.
9. Direct Imaging of Dynamical Heterogeneities Near the Colloid-Gel Transition. Gao, Y.; Kilfoil, M.L. Phys. Rev.
Lett. 2007, 99, 078301.
10. Experimental Determination of Order in Non-Equilibrium Solids Using Colloidal Gels. Gao, Y.; Kilfoil, M.
J. Phys. Condens. Matter 2004, 16, S5191.