Brief Introduction

Ying Zhu is an Assistant Professor (Associate Research Fellow) in the Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), with a joint appointment at the Center for Complex Flows and Soft Matter Research. Dr. Zhu received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Beihang University and a PhD from École Centrale de Lyon, France, where the doctoral research focused on the theory of anisotropic turbulence at the Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d’Acoustique (LMFA). From 2020 to 2025, Dr. Zhu conducted postdoctoral research at the Institut de Physique de Nice (INPHYNI), affiliated with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), studying wave turbulence and vortex turbulence in quantum fluids as part of the major international research initiative Simons Collaboration on Wave Turbulence. Dr. Zhu has published more than ten papers in journals including Reports on Progress in Physics, Physical Review Letters, Communications Physics, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and Physical Review E. Dr. Zhu’s first-author papers have been featured on the cover of Physical Review Letters and selected as an Editors’ Suggestion in Physical Review E. This research has also been featured on the CNRS website and in Physics World.

Research Interests

· Wave turbulence and nonlinear wave dynamics

· Quantum turbulence in Bose–Einstein condensates

· Vortex turbulence and wave–vortex interactions

· Acoustic turbulence

· High-performance numerical simulations of complex flows

Educational Background

March 2016 – January 2019  PhD, École Centrale de Lyon, France

September 2013 – January 2016  Master’s degree, Beihang University

September 2008 – June 2012  Bachelor’s degree, Beihang University

Professional Experience

August 2026–present  Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

September 2020–July 2025  Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut de Physique de Nice, France

April 2019–November 2019  Postdoctoral Researcher, École Centrale de Lyon, France

Selected Publications

1. S. Sab, M. A. Moreno-Armijos, A. D. García-Orozco, G. V. Fernandes, Y. Zhu, A. R. Fritsch, H. Perrin, S. Nazarenko, and V. S. Bagnato. Universal Behavior on the Relaxation Dynamics of Far-From-Equilibrium Quantum Fluids. arXiv:2603.02182 (2026).
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2603.02182. 

2. Y. Zhu*, G. Krstulovic, and S. Nazarenko. Turbulence and far-from-equilibrium equation of state of Bogoliubov waves in Bose-Einstein condensates. Communications Physics (2026), advance online publication.
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-026-02740-2.

3. Y. Zhu*, G. Krstulovic*, and S. Nazarenko. Strong and weak wave turbulence regimes in Bose–Einstein condensates. Reports on Progress in Physics 89, 030501 (2026).
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ae4e58.

4. M. A. Moreno-Armijos, A. R. Fritsch, A. D. García-Orozco, S. Sab, G. Telles, Y. Zhu, L. Madeira, S. Nazarenko, V. I. Yukalov, and V. S. Bagnato. Observation of Relaxation Stages in a Nonequilibrium Closed Quantum System: Decaying Turbulence in a Trapped Superfluid. Physical Review Letters 134, 023401 (2025).
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.023401.

5. Y. Zhu*, B. Semisalov, G. Krstulovic, and S. Nazarenko. Self-similar evolution of wave turbulence in Gross-Pitaevskii system. Physical Review E 108, 064207 (2023).
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.108.064207.

6. Y. Zhu*, B. Semisalov, G. Krstulovic, and S. Nazarenko. Direct and Inverse Cascades in Turbulent Bose-Einstein Condensates. Physical Review Letters 130, 133001 (2023). Cover Story.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.133001.

7. Y. Zhu*, B. Semisalov, G. Krstulovic, and S. Nazarenko. Testing wave turbulence theory for the Gross-Pitaevskii system. Physical Review E 106, 014205 (2022).
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.106.014205. Editors’ Suggestion.

8. Y. Zhu*, C. Cambon, F. S. Godeferd, and A. Salhi. Nonlinear spectral model for rotating sheared turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 866, 5–32 (2019).
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2019.101.