Research Interests
Total synthesis of structually and biologically interesting natural products

Professional Experience
2010–present
Professor, State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Product Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
2010
Research fellow, Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Singapore
Advisor: Prof. K. C. Nicolaou

Education
2004–2009
Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute, California, USA
Advisor: Prof. K. C. Nicolaou
2000–2004
B.Sc., Peking University, Beijing, China
Advisor: Prof. Zhen Yang

Honors and Awards

2020 Thieme−IUPAC Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
2019 Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry
2019 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology BK21 Lectureship Award
2017 Asian International Symposium Distinguished Lectureship Award, Chemical Society of Japan
2017 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award for Organic Synthesis
2016 CAPA Biomatik Distinguished Faculty Award
2016 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship
2015 WuXi PharmaTech Life Science and Chemistry Award
2015 The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (国家杰出青年基金)
2015 WuXi PharmaTech Life Science and Chemistry Award
2015 Roche Chinese Young Investigators Award
2013 Asian Core Program Lectureship Award
2013 Chinese Chemical Society Wei-Shan Award for Natural Product Synthesis
2013 China Pharmaceutical Association–Servier Youth Medicinal Chemist Award
2013 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award
2012 Asian Core Program Lectureship Award
2007 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Graduate Students Abroad
2007 Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowship in Organic Synthesis

Professional Activities
2019– Advisory Board, Organic Letters
2019– Associated Editor, Synlett
2017–2018 Editorial Board, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
2017– Editorial Board, Science China Chemistry
2017– Advisory Board, Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry
2017– Advisory Board, Tetrahedron/Tetrahedron Letters
2016– Advisory Board, Organic Chemistry Frontiers
2016– Editorial Board, Chinese Chemical Letters
2016– The 11th Academic Committee of Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2015– Associate Director, State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry

Selected Presentations

1. Chemistry Department seminar, Yale University, USA, May 16, 2019.
2. The 33rd Annual W.S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry, Stanford University, USA, October 12, 2018.
3. Merck Symposium in Organic Chemistry, Boston College, USA, October 5, 2018.
4. Gordon Research Conference on Stereochemistry, Salve Regina College, Rhode Island, USA, July 22–27, 2018.
5. Organic Syntheses Symposium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, May 10, 2018.
6. The 53rd Bürgenstock Conference, Brunnen, Switzerland, April 29–May 3, 2018.
7. Gordon Research Conference on Natural Products & Bioactive Compounds, Proctor Academy, New Hampshire, USA, July 30–Aug 4, 2017.
8. The 25th International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK, July 17–20, 2017.
9. The 18th Tetrahedron Symposium, Award Lecture, Budapest, Hungary, June 27–30, 2017.
10. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture, University of California, Irvine, USA, February 22, 2017.
11. The 26th Symposium on Optically Active Compounds, Tokyo, Japan, November 25, 2016.
12. The 15th Tateshina Conference on Organic Chemistry, Chino, Japan, November 6–8, 2015.

Teaching

Handouts for Oragnic Synthesis

2018 radical

2018 olefination

2018 invisible DA

2018 1,3-dipole

2018 electrocyclization

2018 sigmatropic rearrangement