青岛大学纺织服装学院教授，非织造材料与工程系副系主任，山东省一流本科课程负责人，入选 2023年、2024年“全球前2%顶尖科学家”榜单，美国内布拉斯加大学医学中心与山东省药学科学院双博士后，美国康奈尔大学访问学者。连续多年被评为青岛大学优秀研究生指导老师，指导学生荣获2022年和2024年中国纺织优秀硕士学位论文，2023山东省优秀硕士学位论文。担任棉纺织技术专题主编，Nanomaterials、Engineered Regeneration、JoVE等杂志的客座编辑，以及Progress in Materials Science、Advanced Functional Materials、Bioactive Materials、Biomaterials等 80 余种 SCI 杂志的特约审稿人。

生物医用纺织品以及纺织制品基组织工程支架材料；新型微纳米纺织品的研发、结构性能研究及其在生物医学领域中的应用探索；将纳米技术、聚合物改性、水凝胶合成以及3D打印与传统纺织技术相结合制备新型功能性纺织制品，应用于组织工程等生物医学领域。

目前目前已发表SCI研究论文80余篇，其中以第一或者通讯作者发表中科院一区论文20余篇，ESI高被引论文13篇，热点文章7篇，论文总引用4000余次，H指数38。主要研究成果发表于Biomaterials，Bioactive Materials，Biofabrication，Acta Biomaterialia，Materials Today Bio，Theranostics等生物医用材料领域中的top期刊，以及Textile Research Journal，Journal of Industrial Textiles等国际纺织领域的权威期刊。已授权国内外专利16项，其中应用到企业实现成果转化的发明专利4项（单项最高转化金额150万）。主持或参与各类科研项目20余项（主持项目单项最高金额300万），参编十四五部委级规划教材2部。荣获中国纺织工业联合会科技进步二等奖、山东省科技进步二等奖、中国纺织之光教学成果特等奖。近三年的代表性论文成果如下：

(1) Qiuyu Wang, Sai Zhang, Jiayi Jiang, Shaojuan Chen, Seeram Ramakrishna, Wenwen Zhao, Fan Yang, Shaohua Wu (通讯作者). Electrospun radially oriented berberine-PHBV nanofiber dressing patches for accelerating diabetic wound healing. Regenerative Biomaterials, 2024, 11(5): 2056-3418. (ESI高被引论文)
(2) Qi Meng, Yiran Li, Qiuyu Wang, Yafei Wang, Kun Li, Shaojuan Chen, Peixue Ling, Shaohua Wu (通讯作者). Recent advances of electrospun nanofiber-enhanced hydrogel composite scaffolds in tissue engineering. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2024, 123: 112-127. (ESI高被引论文、热点论文)
(3) Zhiwei Li, Ye Qi, Zheng Li, Shaojuan Chen, Huimin Geng, Jinming Han, Jiahao Wang, Zhaoqing Wang, Sun Lei, Bin Huang, Gang Li, Xingang Li, Shaohua Wu (通讯作者), Shilei Ni. Nervous tract-bioinspired multi-nanoyarn model system regulating neural differentiation and its transcriptional architecture at single-cell resolution. Biomaterials, 2023, 298: 122146.
(4) Zhiwei Li, Ye Qi, Lei Sun, Zheng Li, Shaojuan Chen, Yuqi Zhang, Yuan Ma, Jinming Han, Zide Wang, Yulin Zhang, Huimin Geng, Bin Huang, Jian Wang, Gang Li, Xingang Li, Shaohua Wu (通讯作者), Shilei Ni. Three-dimensional nanofibrous sponges with aligned architecture and controlled hierarchy regulate neural stem cell fate for spinal cord regeneration. Theranostics, 2023, 13(14): 4762.
(5) Yiran Li, Qi Meng, Shaojuan Chen, Peixue Ling, Mitchell A. Kuss, Bin Duan, Shaohua Wu (通讯作者). Advances, challenges, and prospects for surgical suture materials. Acta Biomaterialia, 2023, 168, 78-112. (ESI高被引论文)
(6) Jiangyu Cai, Jiao Liu, Junjie Xu, Yufeng Li, Ting Zheng, Tianlun Zhang, Kang Han, Shaojuan Chen, Jia Jiang, Shaohua Wu (通讯作者), Jinzhong Zhao. Constructing high-strength nano-micro fibrous woven scaffolds with native-like anisotropic structure and immunoregulatory function for tendon repair and regeneration. Biofabrication, 2023, 15(2): 025002 (ESI高被引论文).
(7) Shaohua Wu, Yiran Li, Caidan Zhang, Litao Tao, Mitchell Kuss, Jung Yul Lim, Jonathan Butcher, Bin Duan. Tri‐layered and gel‐like nanofibrous scaffolds with anisotropic features for engineering heart valve leaflets. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2022, 11(10): 2200053.
(8) Jiao Liu, Tao Li, Hao Zhang, Wenwen Zhao, Lijun Qu, Shaojuan Chen, Shaohua Wu (通讯作者). Electrospun strong, bioactive, and bioabsorbable silk fibroin/poly (L-lactic-acid) nanoyarns for constructing advanced nanotextile tissue scaffolds. Materials Today Bio, 2022, 14: 100243 (ESI高被引论文、热点论文).
(9) Shaohua Wu, Ye Qi, Wen Shi, Mitchell Kuss, Shaojuan Chen, Bin Duan. Electrospun conductive nanofiber yarns for accelerating mesenchymal stem cells differentiation and maturation into Schwann cell-like cells under a combination of electrical stimulation and chemical induction. Acta biomaterialia, 2022, 139: 91-104 (ESI高被引论文).
(10) Shaohua Wu (通讯作者), Ting Dong, Yiran Li, Mingchao Sun, Ye Qi, Jiao Liu, Mitchell A Kuss, Shaojuan Chen, Bin Duan. State-of-the-art review of advanced electrospun nanofiber yarn-based textiles for biomedical applications. Applied Materials Today, 2022, 27: 101473 (ESI高被引论文).