After receiving his PhD in April 1993 from Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. Fu worked as Assistant Professor in this Institute from May 1993 to December 1994. In 1994, Prof. Fu successfully received the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship from the AvH Foundation, Germany and worked as the Humboldt Fellow and then Visiting Scholar in Leibnitz Institute of Polymer Research (IPF) Dresden, Germany from January 1995 to July 1997. Afterwards, he worked in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Sydney University, Australia, University of California, Riverside, USA, City University of Hongkong, China and Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China before joining Chongqing University in November 2015. During 2002 to 2015, he also worked for several months as Visiting Scholar/Visiting Professor in IPF Dresden with Dr Bernd Lauke, and Institute of Composite Materials, Kaiserslautern Technological University with Prof. Klaus Friedrich as well as in Tohoku University, Japan with Prof. Yasuhide Shindo.

Prof. Fu has published about 380 Scientific Journal papers and has been issued over 70 Patents. Over 350 papers are SCI-included with over 20,000 citations and H-index of 76 (SCOPUS). He also published two Books in English on Short Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites (two editions in 2009 and 2019 respectively by Woodhead and Elsevier) and on Polymers at Cryogenic Temperatures in 2013 by Springer. In addition, he published two books in Chinese with the title of Powder Technology together with other Scientists and a few chapters in Books both in English and Chinese. Recently, he published one textbook (two volumes) on Aerospace Composite Materials by China Science Press together with Prof. Yiu-Wing Mai from Sydney University, Australia. In 2023, he was ranked 10,455 among the top scientists (EliteRange) in all subjects in the whole world made by Prof. John P.A. Ioannidis team from Stanford University with Elsevier, and in particular is among the top ranking in composite engineering communities worldwide.

Prof. Fu serves now as Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member for several International Academic Journals including Composites Science and Technology by Elsevier, Composites Communications by Elsevier, Scientific Reports by Nature Springer, and Nano Materials Science by Elsevier. He was also the lead guest editor for Composites Science and Technology (SCI-included, Elsevier, 2007), Composites Part B Engineering (SCI-included, Elsevier, 2011, 2012), and Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites (SCI-included, Sage, 2011). In addition, he has been serving for many years as Associate Editor for Acta Materiae Composite Sinica and Editorial Board Member for Composites Science and Engineering (Chinese Journals). He is currently a group leader of nine staff, one postdoctoral fellow and around thirty postgraduate students including 12 PhD and 18 Master students.