2005年毕业于兰州大学化学化工学院化学基地班，获理学学士学位，同年被保送到兰州大学功能有机分子化学国家重点实验室硕博连读，师从涂永强院士从事复杂天然产物的全合成研究。2010年6月博士毕业后，选留兰州大学从事教学和科研工作。2011年5月至2012年8月，在香港科技大学孙建伟教授研究小组从事手性氮杂卡宾的不对称催化反应研究。2012年11月至2014年12月，在美国加州大学伯克利分校Thomas J. Maimone教授研究小组从事复杂活性天然产物的全合成研究。2015年1月至今，在bet365体育娱乐从事教学和科研工作。
目前主要研究兴趣为天然产物全合成、天然产物合成导向的有机合成方法学，迄今已在 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.、J. Am. Chem. Soc.、Org. Lett. 等国际著名刊物上合作发表学术论文20余篇。曾获2008年兰州大学“翰宇奖学金”，2009年甘肃省“李政道奖学金”等多项奖励，2017年入选陕西省“百人计划”。
11) Xiaozhong Liang,§ Chao Wang,§ Min Wu, Yuezhen Wu, Fang Zhang, Zhaoxiang Han, Xiaoqing Lu, Kunpeng Guo, Yu-Ming Zhao*; Effects of core moiety and substituted positions in phenothiazinebased hole transporting materials towards high thermal stability and good hole mobility; Tetrahedron 2017, 73, 7115-7121.
10) Lun Xu, Fengyi Liu, Li-Wen Xu, Ziwei Gao, Yu-Ming Zhao*; A Total Synthesis of Paeoveitol; Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 3698-3701.[Highlighted by X-Mol.]
9) Yu-Ming Zhao, Thomas J. Maimone*; Short, Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)-Chatancin; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 1223-1226.[VIP paper; Highlighted in Synfacts 2015, 11 (3), 227.]
8) XiuqinDong, Yu-Ming Zhao, Jianwei Sun*; N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Catalyzed Synthesis of α,α-Difluoro Esters. Synlett, 2013, 24, 1221-1224.
7) Yu-Ming Zhao, Man Sing Cheung, Zhenyang Lin, Jianwei Sun*; Enantioselective Synthesis of β,γ-Unsaturated α-Fluoroesters Catalyzed by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 10359-10363. [Highlighted in Synfacts 2012, 8 (11), 1260.]
6) Yu-Ming Zhao, Yik Tam, Yu-Jie Wang, Zigang Li, Jianwei Sun*; N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Catalyzed Internal Redox Reaction of Alkynals: An Efficient Synthesis of Allenoates. Org. Lett. 2011, 14, 1398-1401.[Highlighted in Synfacts 2012, 8 (5), 0564.]
5) Zengqiang Song, Yu-Ming Zhao*, Hongbin Zhai; One-Step Construction of Tetrahydro-5H-indolo[3,2-c]quinolines from Benzyl Azides and Indoles via a Cascade Reaction Sequence. Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 6331-6333. [Highlighted in Synfacts 2012, 8 (3), 0255.]
4) Ming Yang, Yu-Ming Zhao, Shu-Yu Zhang, Yong-Qiang Tu*, Fu-Min Zhang; Chiral Br?nsted Acid-Promoted Enantioselective Desymmetrization in an Intramolecular Schmidt Reaction of Symmetric Azido 1,3-Hexanediones: Asymmetric Synthesis of Azaquaternary Pyrroloazepine Skeletons. Chemistry – An Asian Journal 2011, 6, 1344-1347.
3) Yu-Ming Zhao, Peiming Gu, Hai-Jun Zhang, Yong-Qiang Tu*, Qing-Wei Zhang, Chun-An Fan, Zhi-Min Chen; One-Pot Synthesis of Aminoenone via Direct Reaction of the Chloroalkyl Enone with NaN3: Rapid Access to Polycyclic Alkaloids. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 5289-5295.[Highlighted inSynfacts 2010, 11, 1216.]
2) Yu-Ming Zhao, Peiming Gu, Yong-Qiang Tu*, Hai-Jun Zhang, Qing-Wei Zhang, Chun-An Fan; Formal syntheses of (±)-stemonamine and (±)-cephalotaxine. J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 3211-3213.
1) Yu-Ming Zhao, Peiming Gu, Yong-Qiang Tu*, Chun-An Fan, and Qingwei Zhang; An efficient total synthesis of (±)-stemonamine. Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 1763-1766.[Highlighted inSynfacts 2008, 10, 1023.]
