Daryl W. Yee was born in Singapore, and obtained his B.Eng in Materials Science and Engineering from Imperial College London, UK in 2014. He then moved across the pond to the United States of America and earned his MSc. and Ph.D. in Materials Science from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA in 2016 and 2020 respectively. There, he worked with Julia R. Greer, in close collaboration with Robert H. Grubbs, to develop chemistries for the additive manufacturing of functional materials. After obtaining his Ph.D., Daryl then joined the lab of Robert J. Macfarlane at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, as a postdoctoral associate where he worked on the development of self-assembled nanoparticle superlattices.
Daryl joined the Institute of Electrical and Micro Engineering at EPFL as an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Microengineering in March 2023. His research group seeks to utilize molecular design and accessible materials processing strategies to engineer advanced functional materials that will help tackle societal challenges in healthcare, energy, and climate change.