Yu Dapeng, male, born in March 1959, from Zhongwei , Ningxia , is a professor at the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, School of Physics, Peking University. He is a Yangtze River Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education and the Director of the Electron Microscope Laboratory of Peking University. Professor Yu Dapeng received his doctorate in 1993 from the Solid State Physics Laboratory (Orsay) of the University of Paris-Sud, France; in 2000, he received the National Outstanding Young Scientist Fund; in 2002, he was awarded the Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, and is the academic leader of the "New Low-Dimensional Functional Structure and Physics" innovation team of the Yangtze River Scholar and Innovation Program of the Ministry of Education. 

Professor Yu Dapeng's main research direction is the study of quasi-one-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures and physical properties. He is one of the founders of international nanowire research. His major academic contributions to the preparation, physical properties and device effects of nanowires include: developing new methods for catalytic droplet induction and gas phase transport, and new technologies for large-scale preparation of silicon nanowires, which basically solved the core problem of bottom-up controllable preparation of nanowires; opened up a new field of research on oxide nanowire materials; and conducted in-depth and systematic research on the novel physical properties and application basis of nanowires.

Professor Yu Dapeng has published more than 400 papers in international core professional journals, including more than 160 papers in top international professional journals such as Physical Review B/Letters (14), Applied Physics Letters / JAP (80), Advanced Materials (12), Nano Letters (9), and Nature Communications . The related papers have been cited more than 15,000 times by other peers at home and abroad, with an H-index of 64 (from Google Scholar ). As the first finisher, he won the first prize of the Natural Science Award nominated by the Ministry of Education in 2004 and the second prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2007. Professor Yu Dapeng serves on the editorial board of domestic and foreign academic journals such as Nano Research and Science Communications, and was invited to serve as a 10-Year Review Committee Member of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) (6 scientists worldwide). Professor Yu Dapeng has trained more than 70 graduate students so far.