Yi Du

Dr. Yi Du

Contact Data

Tel.: +41 44 633 31 20
Tel. (Sec.): +41 44 633 46 32

ORCID: 0000-0002-6335-8996

Address

ETH Zürich
Yi Du
Inst. Bau-&Infrastrukturmanagement
HIL  F 28.3
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
8093 Zürich
Switzerland

Organisations Staff of Professorship for Sustainable Construction
http://www.sc.ibi.ethz.ch/en/
Research Field

Cementitious materials, Earth materials, Poured Earth, Bio-additives, Colloidal Interactions, Shrinkage.

 

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

 

Yi Du is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Sustainable Construction. He earned a bachelor's and master's degree in materials science and engineering from Hohai University, China (2015) and Southeast University, China (2018) respectively. During the bachelor's, he had an eight-month internship at State Key Laboratory of High Performance Civil Engineering Materials and finished the bachelor thesis there. Then he continued his master in the building materials field, specializing in nano-modified foamed concrete and ultra-high-performance concrete. In 2023, he obtained his doctoral degree from ETH Zurich, with thesis titled ‘A New Low Carbon Clay Based Concrete with Improved Water Resistance’. During his doctoral studies, he was also partly involved in the project of industrial hemp as regenerative building material, mainly focusing on the hemp-biochar-earth plaster. 

His postdoctoral research focuses on developing additives, in collaboration with Empa, to control the shrinkage of earth materials. Besides, he is also working on formulating new types of clay dispersants used for poured earth application and leading one partnership project funded by Leading House Asia for realizing regenerative materials utilization in rural China.

Membership
From: 2024
Until: -
Member of Youth Committee, China Green Building Council
From: 2023
Until: -
Chinese representative of RILEM Youth Council (RYC)
Honours
2023
BI Promotion Award, ETH Zurich
Additional Information

Publications

 

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