Yuzhuo Cai
About me
Yuzhuo Cai is Adjunct Professor in higher education administration at the Higher Education Group (HEG), Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland. He currently serves as Co-Principal Investigator of a Horizon Europe project on youth education-to-employment transitions in post-COVID-19 Europe (2025–2028), which has been awarded a grant of €2.9 million. He is also Professor at the Department of Education Policy and Leadership and Co-Director of the Global Research Institute for Finnish, European and Global South Education (GRIFE).
He holds editorial positions as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Triple Helix, Co-Editor of the Journal of Studies in International Education, and Associate Editor of the Journal of the Knowledge Economy. In addition, he serves on the editorial and review boards of several prestigious journals, including the British Educational Research Journal and Higher Education.
His research is internationally recognised in areas such as institutional theory in higher education, the internationalisation of higher education, the Triple Helix model of innovation, university engagement in innovation ecosystems, and graduate employability. With over 170 academic publications, his work has appeared in leading journals across multiple disciplines, including Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, Minerva, Technovation, International Journal of Management Reviews, and Scientometrics. He is listed among Stanford University’s Top 1% Scientist Rankings in the field of education.