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dr.ir. Y. Yu MSc (Yifei)

Assistant Professor
BMS-HBE-IEMS
Ravelijn 3402
y.yu-1@utwente.nl
+31534894822
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Yifei Yu was born and raised in Nanchang, China. He studied Civil Engineering in an exchange programme between Nanchang Institute of Technology and Saxion University of Applied Sciences. In 2017, he received his bachelor’s degree. Then, he continued to pursue a Master’s degree in Construction Management and Engineering, specialised in digital technology design at the University of Twente.

After he received his Master’s degree in 2019, he worked as a junior researcher at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems (IEBIS) to prepare his own PhD proposal supported by Twente Graduate School Bridging Grant. Later in 2020, he won the Signature PhD Grant provided by the faculty of Behavioural, Management, and Social Sciences at the University of Twente. Thanks to this grant, he worked as a PhD candidate in the field of Circular Construction Ecosystems (graduated in 2024 with cum laude).

During his PhD career, he was involved in several projects to acquire external research funding. One of the most prestigious projects was Industrial Symbiosis to Hubs for Circularity (IS2H4C) granted by the European Union in 2024. Now, he continues his academic career at the University of Twente as a senior researcher engaged in the IS2H4C project.

Expertise

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Circular Economy
    • Built Environment
    • Construction Industry
    • Symbiosis
    • Construction
    • Model

  • Computer Science

    • Information Technology
    • Models

Organisations

Publications

2025

Circular (De)Construction Matchmaking: Towards a Morphological Matrix (2025)In 41st Annual ARCOM Conference 2025: Regenerative Cities, Abertay Univeristy, Dundee, Scotland (pp. 407-416). Yu, Y., van den Berg, M. & Yazan, D. M.

2024

Circular Construction Ecosystems: Designing a Circularity Information Platform for the Built Environment (2024)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Yu, Y.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036563970Circularity Reinforcement of Critical Raw Materials in Europe: A Case of Niobium (2024)Circular Economy and Sustainability, 4(4), 2449-2472. Article 121555. von Rennenberg, T., Yu, Y., Fracassia, L. & Yazan, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1007/s43615-024-00369-3Circular (de)construction matchmaking: A matter of space and time (2024)Journal of industrial ecology, 28(4), 868-884. Yu, Y., van den Berg, M. & Yazan, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13503Circularity hubs in the built environment: Validating an agent-based scenario demonstrator (2024)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 40th Annual ARCOM Conference 2024: Looking back to move forward. Yu, Y., van den Berg, M. & Yazan, D. M.

2023

How Circular Construction Ecosystems Grow: An Agent-Based Matchmaking Model (2023)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 39th Annual ARCOM Conference 2023. Yu, Y., van den Berg, M. C. & Yazan, D. M.Circularity information platform for the built environment (2023)Automation in construction, 152. Article 104933. Yu, Y., Yazan, D. M., van den Berg, M. C., Firdausy, D., Junjan, V. & Iacob, M. E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2023.104933

2022

A systematic literature review on Circular Economy implementation in the construction industry: a policy-making perspective (2022)Resources, conservation and recycling, 183. Article 106359. Yu, Y., Junjan, V., Yazan, D. M. & Iacob, M. E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106359Circular economy in the construction industry: A review of decision support tools based on Information & Communication Technologies (2022)Journal of cleaner production, 349. Article 131335. Yu, Y., Yazan, D. M., Junjan, V. & Iacob, M. E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.131335

2021

Towards Circular Economy through Industrial Symbiosis in the Dutch construction industry: A case of recycled concrete aggregates (2021)Journal of cleaner production, 293. Article 126083. Yu, Y., Yazan, D. M., Bhochhibhoya, S. & Volker, L.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126083

Research profiles

Courses academic year 2025/2026

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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