Yujia is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, UK. Her primary research area is buyer-supplier relationship in the context of complex infrastructure supply chains. She is particularly interested in exploring how social network theory contributes to non-linear, non-successive relationships in supply networks.

Prior to her PhD studies at Heriot-Watt University, Yujia worked as a senior buyer in the oil and gas industry. She holds a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering and an MSc degree in Logistics & Supply Chain Management from Heriot-Watt University.