工作经历：

2021 - 至今，大连理工大学大学，机械工程学院，副教授。

2019 - 2021，美国加州大学圣塔巴巴拉分校，机械工程系，博士后。

教育经历：

2019年8月 - 2023年8月，美国弗吉尼亚理工大学，机械工程，博士。

2010年8月 - 2014年7月，西安交通大学，能源动力系统及自动化，学士。

研究方向：

1、极端传热传质表面与技术；

2、多物理场仿真建模；

3、微能源与自供电系统。

代表性论文：

1. Lei Yi, Quanmao Wei, Yingqi Hou, Jinhe Shi, Shichao Niu, Shile Feng, Yahua Liu, Yu Sun*, and Lei Zhao*. "Self‐Sustained Electricity Generation from Ambient Moisture Enabled by Step‐Gradient Polysaccharide Films." Advanced Functional Materials 2025: e10258.

2. Lei Zhao, Yu Li, Rui Xu, Ziqin Guo, Yanmei Liu, Shile Feng, Fangyong Niu*, and Kailun Zheng*. "Numerical and experimental investigations on the thermomechanical oscillations of additively manufactured stainless steel parts." International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 2025, 240: 126666.

3. Wenge Huang, Lei Zhao*, Xukun He, Yang Li, C. Patrick Collier, Zheng Zheng, Jiansheng Liu, Dayrl P. Briggs, and Jiangtao Cheng*. “Low-temperature Leidenfrost-like jumping of sessile droplets on microstructured surfaces.” Nature Physics, 2024, 20:1274–1281.

4. Lei Zhao, Serena Seshadri, Xichen Liang, Sophia J. Bailey, Michael Haggmark, Michael Gordon, Matthew E. Helgeson, Javier Read de Alaniz*, Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz*, and Yangying Zhu*.“Depinning of Multiphase Fluid Using Light and Photo-Responsive Surfactants.” ACS Central Science 2022, 8 (2), 235-245.

5. Lei Zhao, Yuhang Qi, Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz, Yi Cui, and Yangying Zhu*. “Effects of Environmental Conditions on the Propagation of Respiratory Droplets.” Nano Letters 2020, 20(10), 7744-7750.