Dr. Liya Yu is a neuropolitical philosopher and writer. The central theme of her political and literary work is dehumanization and a new total art liberation from the brain cell to her Asian diasporic body. As the child of Chinese immigrants in Germany, she studied at the University of Cambridge, UK and at Columbia University in New York on a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation. She is the author of Vulnerable Minds: The Neuropolitics of Divided Societies (Columbia Uni Press, 2022).Research and teaching stays in the USA, Finland, China and Taiwan.Dr. Yu worked on her novel Lotte in Beijing and a feminist performance dance project at an artist residency at Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei. She is a research fellow at the Institute for Medical Psychology at the LMU and lives in Berlin. In the context of the anti-Asian racism debate, Dr. Yu has been described as one of the most important young intellectual voices in the Asian German Diaspora. She was nominated for the Progressive Voices Award 2024 by Brand New Bundestag. In spring 2026, Econ published her latest, highly discussed neuropolitical non-fiction book “Brain instead of Morals”.