2018年3月获日本东北大学（Tohoku University）金属前沿工程专业工学博士。至2023年3月，先后以博士后以及助理教授等身份在日本东北大学开展钢渣综合升级利用、基于碳化物的新型冶金技术开发等方面的研究工作。近年来主持日本学术振兴会（JSPS）等国家级、省部级课题共6项，参与日本国立研究开发法人科学技术振兴机构（JST）未来创造事业和日本新能源·产业技术综合开发机构（NEDO）等重点课题5项。在Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy等冶金、资源、环境类期刊发表论文十余篇。获得Resources, Conservation and Recycling 2022最佳论文奖（年度612篇论文中6篇获奖，IF：13.716），TOKIN科学技术奖，新化学技术研究奖励奖，International Journal of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering最佳论文奖等多个奖项。

1. 2018年3月，日本东北大学金属前沿工程专业（博士）

2. 2012年1月，北京科技大学冶金工程专业（硕士）

3. 2009年7月，北京科技大学冶金工程专业（本科）

[1] Huafang Yu, Xin Lu, Takahiro Miki, Kazuyo Matsubae, Yasushi Sasaki, Tetsuya Nagasaka. Sustainable phosphorus supply by phosphorus recovery from steelmaking slag: a critical review. Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 180 (2022): 106203, Doi: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106203 (RCR 2022 Best paper award)

[2] Huafang Yu, Takahiro Miki, Yasushi Sasaki, Tetsuya Nagasaka. Simultaneous reduction of P₂O₅ and FeO from CaO-SiO₂-FeO-P₂O₅ synthesized slag by carbothermic reduction. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 53 (2022): 1806-1815. Doi: 10.1007/s11663-022-02488-4.

[3] Huafang Yu, Ryoko Yoshida, Yasushi Sasaki, Tetsuya Nagasaka. Yellow phosphorus production from phosphoric acid by carbothermic reduction. REWAS 2022: Developing Tomorrow’s Technical Cycles (VolumeⅠ) (2022): 297-302.

[4] Huafang Yu, Ryoko Yoshida, Yasushi Sasaki, Tetsuya Nagasaka. Production of yellow phosphorus using crude phosphoric acid recovered from secondary phosphorus resource, Metals, 91 (2021), No. 11, 1-7. (in Japanese)

[5] Huafang Yu, Xin Lu, Takahiro Miki, Yasushi Sasaki, Tetsuya Nagasaka: Phosphorus recovery from Ca₂SiO₄-Ca₃P₂O₈ solid solution by carbothermic reduction, Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, 7 (2021): 459-469. Doi: 10.1007/s40831-021-00350-6.

[6] Huafang Yu, Takahiro Miki, Yasushi Sasaki, Tetsuya Nagasaka: Crystallography of the high-temperature Ca₂SiO₄-Ca₃P₂O₈ solid solutions, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 51 (2020): 3007-3015. Doi: 10.1007/s11663-020-01945-2.