Wang Yu is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology of University of Leiden (supervised by prof. dr. Willem Willems, dr. Robert Parthesius and dr. Bill Jeffery). Her thesis entitiled "Essays on the maritime archaeology of power and conflict: the lost Dutch armed merchantmen in the Taiwan Strait, c. 1622-1661", is a historical archaeological understanding of the 17th-century Dutch East India Company (VOC) shipwrecks from the VOC archives. Yu has a MBA (1996, Leeds University) and a MSocSci (2006, James Cook University) specializing in maritime archaeology and underwater cultural heritage. Her past fieldwork involved different area of waters, including Micronesia in 2006 (Diving World War II Wrecks of Truk Lagoon: Investigating The Cultural and Natural Values of The Truk Lagoon World War II Underwater Sites) and France in 2007 (Epave de la Natière II Excavation). She also helped out a series of government projects (Archaeological Investigation of Potential Shipwreck in Penghu Port Makung, Underwater Cultural Heritage Research and Conservation Training Project, Penghu Underwater Archaeological Investigation Project Phase I and Phase II) in Taiwan from 2006 to 2009.
