Organic Chemistry Frontiers welcomes the inaugural Early Career Advisory Board
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Organic Chemistry Frontiers. As a special celebration of this milestone, we are proud to announce the establishment of the inaugural Early Career Advisory Board, consisting of 37 outstanding independent researchers from 12 countries.This diverse group of emerging investigators represents a wide range of expertise within organic chemistry and related areas. They will work collaboratively with the journal's Editorial Board, contributing fresh perspectives and innovative ideas to the ongoing development of Organic Chemistry Frontiers.
We invite everyone to join us in congratulating these new board members and in supporting the endeavours of our Early Career Advisory Board. Should you wish to nominate a deserving young colleague for the board, please reach out to us at OrgChemFrontiersED@rsc.org. Nominees, will be assessed by the journal's Editorial Board based on their research achievements and community recognition.
For further details about the backgrounds and accomplishments of our first Early Career Advisory Board members, please read the biographies below.
Shengming Ma, Editor-in-Chief
Organic Chemistry Frontiers
Agnieszka Nowak-Król graduated with honors from the Rzeszów University of Technology in Poland. She received her Ph.D. in 2013 from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw with Prof. Daniel Gryko and continued her career as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Frank Würthner at the University of Würzburg in Germany. In 2016, she started her independent career and in 2019, she received the Emmy Noether Fellowship to establish an independent research group. In 2020, she was appointed professor at the University of Würzburg. Her current activities focus on chiral π-conjugated organoboron compounds and photoswitches. Her awards include the Arnold Sommerfeld Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2022), the Hector Research Career Development Award 2020 of the Hector Fellow Academy (2021), and the Wojciech Świętosławski Prize of the Polish Chemical Society (2016).
Learn more about Dr Nowak-Król: https://www.chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de/inorgchem/forschungsgruppen/dranowak-krol/
Alastair Lennox attained his PhD from the University of Bristol (Prof. Guy Lloyd-Jones) and did postdoc studies in Rostock, Germany (Prof. Matthias Beller) as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and Madison, Wisconsin (Prof. Shannon Stahl). In 2018, Alastair returned to the University of Bristol as a Royal Society University Research Fellow to start his independent research programme. His group are interested in the development of novel synthetic organic methods with sustainability and mechanism as themes that strongly underpin their approach to this. Specific interests include the exploration of electrochemistry as a tool for performing selective redox transformations, and also in the development of fluorination reactions and fluorinated building blocks.
Learn more about Dr Lennox: https://www.lennoxlab.com/
Research in the Kennedy lab focuses on the development and mechanistic study of innovative catalytic systems and strategies, with the goal of enabling organic synthesis for a sustainable and healthy society. We leverage detailed investigation of fundamental reactivity properties using terrestrially abundant transition elements, cooperative ligand design strategies, and tunable external stimuli to unlock rational catalyst design principles. We apply these insights to tackle challenges ranging from CO2 utilization for commodity chemical synthesis, late-stage diversification for health-centred fine-chemical applications, and chemical recycling of anthropogenic polymers.
Learn more about Dr Kennedy: https://www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/groups/kennedy/
Christo was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and moved to the US at the age of four. He received his B.S. in 2009 from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. in 2014 from the Hartwig group at the University of California Berkeley. His graduate research involved the development of methods and mechanistic study of iridium-catalyzed hydrofunctionalization of alkenes. Following his doctoral studies, Christo conducted his postdoctoral training with Melanie Sanford at the University of Michigan and worked on designing molecules for energy storage in flow batteries. Christo joined the faculty of The Ohio State University in 2017. His group develops electrocatalytic synthetic methods for drug discovery, organic synthesis, and materials upcycling.
Learn more about Dr Sevov: https://research.cbc.osu.edu/sevov.1/
Christopher Teskey studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and gained his PhD from the University of Manchester. In 2017, he moved to the University of Vienna with a Lise Meitner Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the FWF (Austrian Science Fund). Following this, he led a Junior Research Group at RWTH Aachen University from 2019–2023 before moving to his current position where he is a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. His research programme, centred around the merger of photochemistry and transition-metal catalysis, has been recognised by several awards including the ADUC prize in 2022 and the Karl-Ziegler-Förderpreis in 2023.
Learn more about Dr Teskey: https://www.teskeygroup.com/
Christopher J. Whiteoak studied chemistry at the University of York (UK) and earned his PhD in 2010 (Profs. Gibson and Britovsek, Imperial College London, UK). After postdoctoral positions in France (Dr Boisson, CPE-Lyon) and Spain (Prof. Kleij, ICIQ; and Dr Ribas, Universität de Girona), he returned to the UK (Sheffield Hallam University) as Lecturer and later, Senior Lecturer. In 2020 he joined the SOSCATCOM research group at the Universidad de Alcalá (Spain), where he holds a Talent Attraction fellowship (Comunidad de Madrid). His current research interests include the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds through a catalytic C–H bond functionalization approach and the synthetic valorisation of bio-derived compounds and CO2.
Learn more about Dr Whiteoak: https://www.uah.es/es/estudios/profesor/Christopher-John-Whiteoak/
Chuan He obtained his bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Wuhan University, China, in 2008. He then began his Ph.D. studies at the same university under the supervision of Prof. Aiwen Lei. After completing his Ph.D. in 2013, he joined Prof. Matthew Gaunt's group as a postdoctoral researcher and Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK. In 2018, he joined Southern University of Science and Technology as an associate professor to start his independent research career. His current research interests focus on chiral organosilicon and organoboron chemistry, particularly aiming to develop new synthetic methods to expedite the synthesis of silicon-stereogenic silanes and boron-stereogenic compounds with high efficiency and selectivity, and to explore their applications in asymmetric catalysis, chiral materials, and chiral bio-active molecules.
Learn more about Dr He: https://faculty.sustech.edu.cn/?tagid=hec&iscss=1&snapid=1&orderby=date&go=1&lang=en
Clément Chauvier studied chemistry at Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (2010–2014) and obtained a Master's degree in Molecular Chemistry from Sorbonne Université in 2014. Next, he pursued graduate research at CEA Saclay with Thibault Cantat working on the activation of small molecules and sustainable reductive chemistry with boron and silicon-based reductants. In 2018, Clément moved to Germany with a Humboldt Fellowship to carry out postdoctoral work at TU Berlin with Martin Oestreich. In early 2020, he joined the Parisian Institute of Molecular Chemistry at Sorbonne Université in Paris as an assistant professor of chemistry. His research interests include main group chemistry (mostly of silicon and boron), s-block organometallic chemistry and the study of reaction mechanisms notably by DFT calculations.
Learn more about Dr Chauvier: https://ipcm.fr/index.php/en/en-research/en-presentation-maco-group/en-maco-group-members/en-clement-chauvier/
Prof. Cody Ross Pitts is a synthetic and physical organic chemist from the Brass City – Waterbury, CT. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (Lectka Lab, 2012–2017), where he developed mild radical fluorination chemistry and obtained spectroscopic characterization of a fluoronium ion in solution. He then pursued mild oxidative fluorination of heteroatoms under an ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship (Togni Lab, 2017–2019) and subsequently obtained total synthesis experience under an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship (Baran Lab, 2019–2021). His independent career at the University of California, Davis commenced July 2021. Research in the CRP Lab is situated at a nexus of method development, reagent design, synthesis, and mechanistic studies, with a current emphasis on making fluorinated functional groups more accessible.
Learn more about Dr Pitts: https://www.codyrosspittslab.com/
Dibyendu Das is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Sciences at IISER Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He earned his PhD from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) in 2010 and completed postdoctoral research at Emory University, USA, in 2013. In 2017, he started his independent lab at IISER Kolkata. His research group is focused on emulating living matter like properties via simple chemical-based building blocks and contributes towards the emerging field of systems chemistry. He has been awarded several awards such as Indian Peptide Society-Young Scientist, Swarnajayanti Award, and CRSI Medal. He was featured in a compendium (coffee table book) about 75 scientists under the age of 50 shaping today's India, released by the Minister of State for the Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India.
Learn more about Dr Das: https://www.ddaslab.com/
Erin is an assistant professor at Princeton University's Department of Chemistry. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and her PhD from Colorado State University in collaboration with Professors Tom Rovis and Abby Doyle in 2018. Afterward, she spent two years as a Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Professor Brett P. Fors's lab at Cornell University before starting her independent career there in 2020. Her research in the Stache Lab combines synthetic organic chemistry, photochemistry, inorganic materials, and polymer chemistry for new synthesis and materials science applications. Her group focuses on developing new polymerization strategies using catalysis to access degradable polymers or materials with unique properties, with a particular emphasis on photocatalysis for sustainable synthesis and depolymerization.
Learn more about Dr Stache: https://stache.chem.cornell.edu/
Dr Feng Zhu obtained his B.S. degree from Guangxi University in 2010 and later completed his Ph.D. at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2015. Subsequently, he conducted postdoctoral research at both Colorado State University and the University of Colorado Boulder. In 2021, he embarked on an independent career as an associate professor at the Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research focuses on developing innovative and efficient strategies for synthesizing carbohydrates, peptides, and proteins with significant biological properties. Drawing on his expertise in organic chemistry, he aims to address contemporary challenges in the fields of chemistry, biology, and medicine.
Learn more about Dr Zhu: https://fengzhu.sjtu.edu.cn/index.htm
Guang-Jian Mei is a professor in the College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University (ZZU). He graduated from ZZU in 2011 and received his PhD in Organic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Chuang-Chuang Li from Peking University in 2016. Subsequently, he joined Prof. Feng Shi's group at Jiangsu Normal University as an associate professor. From 2018 to 2020, he carried out his postdoctoral research with Prof. Yixin Lu at the National University of Singapore. In 2021, he started his independent academic career at ZZU, and his current research focus is on the catalytic asymmetric synthesis of polynitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds.
Learn more about Dr Mei: https://www.x-mol.com/groups/mei_guangjian?lang=en
Hairong Lyu received her BSc degree in chemistry from Nankai University in 2014. She then completed her PhD at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2018, under the supervision of Prof. Zuowei Xie. Subsequently, she pursued her postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, working with Prof. Guangbin Dong. In August 2022, she joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an assistant professor and started her independent research. The Lyu group's research interests are focused on the development of new reagents, catalytic systems, and synthetic methodologies for applications in the synthesis and derivatization of bioactive molecules and functional materials.
Learn more about Dr Lyu: https://www.lyugroup.org/
Jeff Bandar received his B.A. in Chemistry from Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota in 2009. He then conducted Ph.D. studies with Tristan H. Lambert at Columbia University from 2009 to 2014, followed by postdoctoral work with Stephen L. Buchwald at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2017, Jeff started his independent research career at Colorado State University where his group focuses on the discovery and development of new base-promoted synthetic methods.
Learn more about Dr Bandar: https://www.thebandargroup.org/research
Jolene Reid was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. She received an MSci from Queens University Belfast and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge working with Professor Jonathan Goodman. She was a Marie Curie research fellow in Professor Matthew Sigman's group at the University of Utah. In 2020, she joined the faculty of the University of British Columbia as an assistant professor. Here, her research program combines computational, data science, and experimental chemistry techniques for the development of selective organic reactions and catalysts.
Learn more about Dr Reid: https://www.thereidlab.com/
Koji Kubota earned his Ph.D. in 2016 under the supervision of Professor Hajime Ito at Hokkaido University. He then joined the laboratory of Professor F. Dean Toste at the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2017, he transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and joined the laboratory of Professor Stephen L. Buchwald as a JSPS overseas research fellow. He began his academic career at Hokkaido University in 2018 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021. His recent research interests include the development of new selective organic reactions using mechanochemistry.
Learn more about Dr Kubota: https://www.icredd.hokudai.ac.jp/kubota-koji
Liang-An Chen studied chemistry at Fuyang Normal University (2004–2008) and received his MS and PhD in organic chemistry at Xiamen University (2008–2014). Afterward, he began postdoctoral research at Columbia University (2015–2018) and then joined Indiana University Bloomington as a postdoctoral fellow (2018–2019). In 2019, he started his independent academic career as a full professor of chemistry at Nanjing Normal University. He was selected as a Jiangsu Specially-Appointed Professor (2020), an Emerging Investigator of Organic Chemistry Frontiers (2023), and a recipient of the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award (2024). He was appointed Director of Organic Chemistry at Nanjing Normal University in 2023. His research interests focus on the development of practical synthetic methods and novel strategies with metal catalysis for the synthesis of functionalized molecules with an emphasis on precise and controllable selective chemical synthesis.
Learn more about Dr Chen: https://www.x-mol.com/groups/liangan_chen
Makeda Tekle-Smith was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California. She obtained her B.A. in chemistry at Pomona College in 2014. She then obtained her Ph.D. with Prof. James Leighton at Columbia University in 2019. There she developed new methods to construct asymmetric C(sp3)–C(sp3) bonds and applied these technologies to the total synthesis of non-aromatic polyketide natural products. Makeda then went on to conduct her postdoctoral research with Prof. Abigail Doyle first at Princeton University and then at the University of California Los Angeles. Makeda's postdoctoral work has focused on generating and harnessing reactive radical intermediates through photoredox catalysis to unveil new reactivity platforms. Makeda began her independent career at Columbia University in 2022.
Learn more about Dr Tekle-Smith: https://www.makedatekle-smith.com/
Max M. Hansmann studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg with research stays at Cambridge University and the University of Texas at Austin. He finished his master's thesis in 2012 in the group of Barry M. Trost, followed by a PhD (2012–2015) with Stephen Hashmi and a Postdoc (2015–2017) with Guy Bertrand. In 2018, he started his independent career at the University of Göttingen. In 2019, he accepted a tenure-track position at TU Dortmund University and was appointed in 2023 full professor for organic chemistry. His research interests include organic redox systems, photocatalysis, energy storage as well as reactive intermediates.
Learn more about Dr Hansmann: https://ccb.tu-dortmund.de/en/professorships/oc/hansmann/
Midori Akiyama received her PhD from the University of Tokyo under the supervision of Prof. Kyoko Nozaki in 2017. She joined “Laboratory for Material and Life Sciences for Fusion of Fluorine and Organic Chemistry” at the University of Tokyo as a project assistant professor. Then she moved to Prof. Hiroshi Imahori's group at Kyoto University as an assistant professor in 2022. She was awarded a L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Japan Fellowships in 2017, Thieme Chemistry Journals Award in 2023, and the PCCP Prize in 2023. Her research interests include synthetic organic chemistry, photochemistry, organometallic chemistry, and fluorine chemistry.
Learn more about Dr Akiyama: http://www.moleng.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~moleng_05/en/akiyama/
Dr Ming Joo Koh was born and raised in Singapore. He received his B.Sc. degree (First Class Honors) in Chemistry & Biological Chemistry from Nanyang Technological University in 2012, before heading to Boston College for his Ph.D. and post-doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Amir Hoveyda from 2012 to 2018. Koh joined the Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore as a President's Assistant Professor in 2018, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2023. His research focuses on developing sustainable and practical catalytic solutions that address critical challenges in chemical synthesis through nonprecious metal catalysis, radical chemistry and cross-coupling.
Learn more about Dr Koh: https://www.mjkohgroup.com/
Dr Rui Shang currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Tokyo. He earned his B.Sc. (2009) and Ph.D. (2014) from the University of Science and Technology of China. Dr Shang pursued joint training for his Ph.D. at The University of Tokyo from 2012 to 2014, followed by a JSPS fellowship (2014–2016) within the same department, collaborating with Prof. Eiichi Nakamura. In 2017, he was appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Tokyo, and in 2020, he attained the current position. Dr Shang's research encompasses the development of catalytic reactions, the synthesis of novel conjugated molecules, and the exploration of their material functions. Dr Shang has received notable accolades, including the Chemist Award BCA 2022 from MSD Japan, the Young Chemist Award of the Chemical Society of Japan (2022), and the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award 2023.
Learn more about Dr Shang: https://moltech.jp/ja/rui-shang
Dr Sengupta received her Ph.D. in organic supramolecular chemistry from University of Würzburg, Germany in the supervision of Prof. Dr Frank Würthner. Followed by postdoctoral stay at Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands and an INSPIRE faculty fellowship at IISc Bangalore, she joined IISER Mohali in the Department of Chemical Sciences in 2017 as an Assistant Professor, where she is currently an Associate Professor. Her research interests include development of organic (twisted) donor–acceptor systems for twisted intramolecular charge transfer, thermally activated delayed fluorescence and their applications in ratiometric sensing, optoelectronics and photocatalysis. Further research directions include multichromophoric antenna and macrocycle design for multifunctional sensing and photocatalysis. Dr Sengupta is a recipient of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Young Scientist award (2022) and SERB POWER Grant (2022). Dr Sengupta serves as an Early Career Advisory Board member of ChemistrySelect.
Learn more about Dr Sengupta: https://sanchita0.wixsite.com/sanchitaiiserm
Sandip Murarka received his MSc from IIT Bombay, India (2007), MS from Rutgers University, USA (2009), and PhD from WWU Münster, Germany (2013). Afterwards, he worked as a postdoc at Max Planck Institute, Dortmund (2013–2016). Following a year-long stay as a Team Leader in Syngene International Limited, he joined IIT Jodhpur, India as an Assistant Professor (2017), and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. His research activities include development of sustainable transformations towards the synthesis of biologically relevant molecular architectures. He is a recipient of the Merck Young Scientist Award (Runner-up, 2023), Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2022), and Early Career Research Award (2018). He is a Fellow of the Indian Chemical Society (2020), and Early Career Advisory Board Member of ChemistrySelect (2022).
Learn more about Dr Murarka: https://sandipmurarka.wixsite.com/murarka-lab
Sarah Yunmi Lee earned her B.S. from KAIST in 2009 and her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from MIT in 2014. During her graduate studies, she focused on the synthetic and mechanistic studies of nucleophile-catalyzed asymmetric reactions with planar-chiral DMAP derivatives under the guidance of Prof. Gregory C. Fu. Following graduation, she became an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Prof. John F. Hartwig at UC Berkeley, where her work centered on the development and mechanistic investigation of Pd-catalyzed functionalizations of arenes by Ag-mediated C–H activation. In March 2018, she embarked on her independent career in the Department of Chemistry at Yonsei University as an assistant professor. Her research interests encompass the development of chiral catalytic platforms for stereoselective chemical synthesis.
Learn more about Dr Lee: https://www.syleelab.com/
Tomáš Slanina is an Adjunct Professor at Charles University and a junior group leader of the Redox Photochemistry group at IOCB Prague. Previously, following his MSc studies at Masaryk University, he joined a joint PhD program between his alma mater and the University of Regensburg, under the supervision of Professors Klán and König and graduated in 2015. Subsequently, he completed two postdoctoral stays, first with Professor Heckel, at Goethe University, and then with Professor Ottosson, at Uppsala University. Currently, his research interests lie at the intersection of photo-, organic and radical chemistry and spectroscopy.
Learn more about Dr Slanina: https://slanina.group.uochb.cz/en
Urs studied chemistry at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, where he completed his doctorate under the supervision of Prof. Bernhard Breit. He then joined the research group of Prof. David Milstein at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2017, he started his independent research at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, as a Liebig Fellow of the German Chemical Industry Fund. Since 2019, he has been leading an Emmy Noether Junior Research Group funded by the German Research Foundation. The research focus of his group is the computational design and synthesis of novel metal-free systems, in particular frustrated Lewis pairs, for bond activation and catalysis.
Learn more about Dr Gellrich: https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/fb08/Inst/organische-chemie/Gellrich
Weiming Yuan was born in 1987 in Anhui, China. He received his PhD from East China Normal University in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Shengming Ma. In the same year, he moved to Stockholm University (Sweden) as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Kalman J. Szabo (2014–2016). Then, he moved to TU-Berlin and worked with Prof. Martin Oestreich (2016–2018). After four years postdoctoral training, Dr Yuan moved back to China and was appointed as a Professor in Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). His research interest is focused on the development of novel strategies for radical-based transformations and asymmetric synthesis.
Learn more about Dr Yuan: http://faculty.hust.edu.cn/yuanweiming/en/index/2195048/list/index.htm
Xiao Shen received his B.S. degree in Applied Chemistry from Shandong Normal University (2008) in Jinan, Shandong. After moving to Shanghai, he completed his Ph.D. at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (2013) with Prof. Jinbo Hu. After a half year stay as a research associate at SIOC, he moved to Boston for postdoctoral studies with Prof. Tobias Ritter at Harvard University and Prof. Amir H. Hoveyda at Boston College. In August 2017, Xiao accepted an appointment at Wuhan University, where he is a professor in the Institute for Advanced Studies.
Learn more about Dr Shen: http://xiaoshen.whu.edu.cn/index.php
Professor Xiao-Hui Yang was born in 1987 in Hebei Province, China. She obtained her B.S. in chemistry at Jiangsu Normal University in 2010, and her Ph.D. in organic chemistry (2015) with Prof. Qi-Lin Zhou at Nankai University. From 2016 to 2020, she was engaged in postdoctoral research at UC Irvine under the supervision of Prof. Vy M. Dong. At the end of 2020, she moved back to China and joined the faculty of Beijing Institute of Technology as a full professor. Her main research interests include organometallic chemistry, asymmetric catalysis, and organic synthetic methodology.
Learn more about Dr Yang: https://www.x-mol.com/groups/Xiaohui_Yang?lang=en
Xiaoming Wang received his B.S. in 2009 from Zhejiang University (China). In 2014, he obtained his Ph.D. from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Kuiling Ding. In the following years, he did his post-doctoral research with Prof. Frank Glorius at Münster University (Germany) and Prof. Kyoko Nozaki at University of Tokyo (Japan). In 2019, he joined Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry as a professor. His current research interests focus mainly on the development of novel binuclear metal catalysts and synthetic strategies via bi- and multi-nuclear metallic catalysis.
Learn more about Dr Wang: https://sioc.cas.cn/wxmktz/HOME_wxm/
Xiao-Ye Wang received his BSc degree from Nankai University in 2009 and obtained his PhD degree from Peking University in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Jian Pei. From 2014 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral researcher and a Humboldt Fellow in the group of Prof. Klaus Müllen at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany. In 2019, he moved to Nankai University to start his independent research as a professor of Chemistry. His research focuses on organic conjugated materials for optoelectronic applications.
Learn more about Dr Wang: http://wang.nankai.edu.cn/
Yan Xu received his B.S. degree from Peking University in 2013 and his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University of Chicago with Prof. Guangbin Dong in 2018. After three years of postdoctoral training with Prof. Robert H. Grubbs at the California Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty of Peking University as an Assistant Professor in 2021. His current research interests include new strategies for selective C–H transformations, new coupling reactions using common functional groups, and metathesis-based polymer synthesis driven by catalyst development.
Learn more about Dr Xu: https://www.chem.pku.edu.cn/en/faculty/Faculty1/x/129416.htm
Dr Yang obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from Peking University in 2011. He received his Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry in 2016 under the guidance of Prof. Steve Buchwald at MIT. In the Buchwald lab, he developed CuH-catalyzed methods for the asymmetric hydrofunctionalization of simple olefins. As an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow working with Prof. Frances Arnold at Caltech, Dr Yang studied biocatalysis and protein engineering and developed biocatalytic asymmetric C–H amination. Dr Yang started his independent career in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California Santa Barbara in 2020. By integrating synthetic chemistry, biocatalysis, protein engineering, bioinformatics and computational tools, the Yang group is reprogramming nature's biosynthetic machineries to address challenging problems in organic chemistry and asymmetric catalysis. The Yang group recently coined and implemented two new strategies to advance novel stereoselective biocatalytic reactions, including metalloredox radical biocatalysis and pyridoxal radical biocatalysis. Dr Yang is a recipient of the Regent's Junior Faculty Fellowship Award (2021), Faculty Career Development Award (2022), NSF CAREER Award (2022), NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (2022), Thieme Chemistry Journals Award (2023), Army Research Office Young Investigator Award (2023) and Packard Fellowship (2023).
Learn more about Dr Yang: https://yang.chem.ucsb.edu/
Yong-Qiang Zhang earned his B.S. and Ph.D. from Lanzhou University under the mentorship of Professor Yongqiang Tu. After a brief research stint at Georgia State University, USA, he won a Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship to advance his research in Professor Andreas Gansäuer's group at the Kekulé-Institute, University of Bonn, Germany. Subsequently, he pursued another postdoctoral position in Professor Christa Müller's group at the university's pharmaceutical institute before joining Shandong University in China in 2019. Recently honored with the Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2024), Yong-Qiang Zhang currently serves as an outstanding young scholar professor at Shandong University. His main research interests are asymmetric titanium radical catalysis and the synthesis of bioactive natural products and pharmaceuticals.
Learn more about Dr Zhang: https://faculty.sdu.edu.cn/zhangyongqiang/en/index/1017178/list/index.htm
Zach Wickens is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Zach received his B.A. from Macalester College (2010) and his Ph.D. (2015) from the California Institute of Technology with Robert H. Grubbs. Following doctoral studies, Zach was an NIH postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Eric N. Jacobsen at Harvard University. In 2018, Zach launched his independent career at UW–Madison where his group develops new approaches to generate and exploit reactive intermediates in organic synthesis using light and electricity.
Learn more about Dr Wickens: https://wickens.chem.wisc.edu/
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