Food WG 4, Food interactions on surfaces, LINXS Fellow

Shun Yu is a researcher at the unit of smart materials at RISE Research institute of Sweden. He works as a technique specialist by using scattering characterization to solve industry-relevant R&D challenges spanning food system, biobased materials, new packaging solution, as well as coatings for automobile industries. His research interest has been to combine spectroscopy and scattering techniques to understand the interaction and structure in nanoscale and/or at the interface and develop novel data analysis strategies, for example via machine learning.

He obtained Ph.D. in materials physics in 2012 from Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (KTH), where he used Soft X-ray spectroscopies (XPS, NEXAFS, RPES) to study the interaction at the interface between the organic and inorganic materials. Then he spent two years at DESY to work with Hard X-ray scattering technique (SAXS/WAXS) at with the support of Wallenberg postdoc fellowship and focused thin film structure characterization via the grazing incidence X-ray scattering (GIXS). Since 2014, he begins to work with biobased materials extensively first in Wallenberg Wood Science center, then at Stockholm University and now at RISE.