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Group photo 2019
Postdoc Fellow
Dr. Tian Duanshuai
tiands@sioc.ac.cn
Tian Duanshuai was born and raised in Shandong, China. He obtained his B.Sc at Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST) in 2015. After that he received his Ph.D degree in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Tang Wenjun at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIOC). In mid-June 2021 he moved to NUS and joined us. In his spare time, he likes running and playing table tennis.
Dr. Liu Chenguang
LCG.CHEM@nus.edu.sg
Chenguang was born and raised in Shandong Province, China. He received his B.Sc. from Liaocheng University in 2011. From Sep. 2011 to Sep. 2017, He pursued his PhD in Xiamen University, under the guidance of Prof. Yandong Zhang. In Zhang’s group, he completed the total synthesis of Aplydactone and Fusarisetin A. In Dec. 2017, he joined us, focusing on the flow synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients. In free time, he enjoys swimming and reading.
Dr. Qi JING
qj7@nus.edu.sg
Qi Jing was born and raised in An Hui Province, China. She obtained her B.Sc. at Fuyang Normal College in 2015. Then she pursued her PhD in University Of Science And Technology Of China, under the guidance of Prof. Yifeng Wang. In Wang’s group she focus on the study of construing organoboron compounds by NHC-boron radicals. In Jun. 2021, She joined us, focusing on developing efficient and scalable electrochemical routes for the late-stage C(sp2)-H trifluoromethylation of hetero(arenes), intended for future deployment in continuous flow manufacturing of pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Zhang Yanbin
ybzhang@nus.edu.sg
Dr. Yang Youqing
chmyqy@nus.edu.sg
Yang Youqing was born and raised in Hunan province, China. He received his B.S. in 2011 at the University of South China. Then he continued his study under the supervision of Prof. Zhou Wang at Xiangtan University and got his master’s degree in 2014. After that, he joined Prof. Shi Zhuangzhi’s group to work on the “regioselective direct functionalization of indoles on the benzenoid moiety” in Nanjing University in 2014. When he got his PhD’s degree, he joined Prof. Armido Studer’s group in 2018 at the University of Münster (WWU) to continue his research and work on the chain radical chemistry. Then he joined the Wu lab in Feb. 2021. In his spare time, he would like listening music and play badminton.
Yanbin was born and raised in Jilin, China. He obtained his B.Sc (2015) and Ph.D. (2020) degree at Fudan University under the supervision of Prof. Hao Guo. He is also an exchange student at University of South Florida in Prof. Xiaodong Shi’s group in 2019. He joined Wu lab in Mar. 2021 focusing on flow chemistry development. He likes playing guitar and watching movies in his spare time.
Fan Xuanzi
e0013553@u.nus.edu
Fan Xuanzi was born and raised in Henan Province, middle of China. She obtained her B.Sc. at Beijing Normal University in 2015. She joined us in January and is working on developing new photochemistry in flow. In her spare time, she likes reading books and watching movies.
Dr. Wu Mingyue
chmwum@nus.edu.sg
Mingyue was born in Hunan Province, China. He received his B.S. in 2010 and M.S. degree in 2013 under supervision of Prof Deng Guojun at Xiangtan University. Then he joined Prof Tan&Liu group at SUSTech as a research assistant. He obtained his PhD from NUS under the supervision of Prof Lu Yixin. He joined us in January 2021, and he is working on light-flow synthesis. In his spare time, he like playing basketball and badminton.
Dr.Gao Yongyuan
yongyuan@nus.edu.sg
Gao Yongyuan was born in Anhui Province, China. He received his M.S. degree in 2017 under supervision of Prof Sun Peipei at Nanjing Normal University. After that he worked on C-C bond coupling reaction under electrochemical conditions at Nanjing University, and obtained his Ph.D. (2020) under the supervision of Prof Pan Yi and Prof Wang Yi. He joined us in September 2021, and he is working on electrochemical synthesis.
Dr. Wang Cheng-Qiang
cqwang08@nus.edu.sg
Cheng-Qiang was born and raised in Henan, China. He obtained his B.Sc at Nanjing Agricultural University in 2013. After that he received his Master’s degree in 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Loh Teck-Peng and Dr. Feng Chao at University of Science and Technology of China. Then he joined Prof. Feng Chao’s Lab in Nanjing Tech University to focus on the study of transition-metal catalyzed functionalization of unsaturated fluorinated compounds. After obtaining his PHD degree in 2018 he stayed in the same group to continue his post-doc research. In mid-February 2021 he moved to NUS and joined us. In his spare time, he likes watching movies and playing basketball.
Dr.Toh Ren Wei
e0146555@u.nus.edu
Dr.Zhang Dong
e0146555@u.nus.edu
Ren Wei was born and raised in Singapore. He obtained his Diploma with Merit in Molecular Biotechnology from Ngee Ann Polytechnic in 2011 and completed his B.Sc at NUS in Dec 2016. He joined us in December 2016. During his free time, he will go café hopping, sing and play board games, escape rooms.
Zhang Dong was born and raised in Chongqing, China. He obtained his B.Sc. at Sichuan University in 2016. And then he continues pursuing his Ph.D. at Sichuan University under the guidance of Prof. Xiaoming Feng. In mid-September 2021, he moved to NUS and joined us, mainly focusing on the electro-photochemistry. In his spare time, he likes running and cooking delicious food.
Dr. Yu Jiajia
chmjjy@nus.edu.sg
Jiajia was born and raised in Henan Province, China. He obtained his B.S. at Xuchang University in 2014. After that he worked on C-C bond cleavage and formation of cyclobutanols and radical-mediated functional group migration reactions at Soochow University, and obtained his M.S. (2017) and Ph.D. (2020) Degree successively under the supervision of Prof. Zhu Chen. Then, He moved to NUS and joined the Wu lab in Nov. 2020. In his spare time, he likes playing basketball and running.
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Dr. Wu Jie
Jie finished his undergraduate study at Beijing Normal University in 2006. in 2012, he earned his Ph.D degree under the supervision of Prof. James Panek in the Department of Chemistry at Boston University. His PhD thesis was Total Synthesis of (-)-Virginiamycin M2 and Chiral Organosilane Based Sequential Transformations to Access Polycyclic Scaffolds.
After that, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at MIT, working with Prof. Timothy Jamison and Prof. Alan Hatton. His postdoc research was aimed at utilizing CO2 as a green C1 source to synthesize useful chemicals in continuous flow reactors.
Since July 2015, Jie has been appointed as an assistant professor at National University of Singapore in the Chemistry Department. Before that, he worked as a senior scientist in Snapdragon Chemistry Inc. at Boston which is established by his postdoc advisor Prof. Timothy Jamison for half a year. In 2021 July, Jie was promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure). He also serve as NUS chemistry MSc Program Director.
In his spare time, Jie likes to play basketball and badminton.
PhD Student
Li Qingyao
Year 3 PhD
e0491207@u.nus.edu
Chen Weihao
Year 4 PhD
chenweihao@u.nus.edu
Weihao was born and raised in Guangdong, China. He obtained his B. Sc. degree in chemistry in 2018 at Southern University of Science and Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Ho Chun-Yu. He joined us in August 2018. He has been interested in NHC-Transitional metal catalysis as well as flow chemistry. In his spare time, he likes playing basketball and listening to music.
Qingyao was born in 1996 in Zhejiang, China. He received B.S. from Zhejiang University in 2019. He joined us in July 2019 and is working on photoredox catalysis. He would like to play basketball and soccer in his spare time.
Tang Haidi
Year 3 PhD
haidi@u.nus.edu
Haidi was born in 1994 in Anhui, China. Before joining Wu’s group, she received B.S. (2016) from Anhui University of Science and Technology and M.S. (2019) degree in Materials Science from University of Science and Technology of China under the supervision of Prof. Wei Liu. She joined us in July and is working on transition metal catalysis. She enjoys photograghing and traveling in her spare time.
Wang Mu
Year 3 PhD
E0444164@u.nus.edu
Yuan Ye
Year 3 PhD
e0444238@u.nus.edu
Wang Mu was born and raised in Zhejiang Province, China. He obtained his B.Sc. at Peking University under the supervision of Prof. Yu Zhi-Xiang. He joined us in July 2019 and is working on flow synthesis. In his spare time, he likes playing tennis and badminton.
Yuan Ye was born in Gansu province, China. He received his B.A. in applied Chemistry from Fujian normal University. Then he moved to Fuzhou University for further study in molecular wires, supervised by Prof. Yuan Yaofeng, and got his Master degree in 2018. In 2019, he joined the Wu research group under the support of TJU-NUS Joint Institute to pursue his PhD degree, under co-suporvision of Prof. Ma Junan (Tianjin University). Outside of the lab, he enjoys playing ball games and listening music
Shi Xiangcheng
Year 3 PhD
e0444250@u.nus.edu
Xiangcheng was raised in Guangdong Province, China. He obtained his B.Sc. at Inner Mongolia University and M.Sc. at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In 2019, he joined the Wu research group under the support of TJU-NUS Joint Institute to pursue his PhD degree, under co-suporvision of Prof. Gong Jinlong (Tianjin University).
Zhou Zhaoyu
Year 2 PhD
zhaoyuzhou@u.nus.edu
Zhou Zhaoyu was born and raised in Xiamen, China. He received his bachelor's degree from Xiamen University. Then he joined us in 2021 to pursue his PhD degree under the co-supervision of Prof. Ma Xinbin with the support of TJU-NUS Joint Institute. Besides being an active visitor to chefs and their restaurants, he also likes hiking, travelling and playing the piano in his leisure time.
Liu Tao
Year 2 PhD
Tao_Liu@u.nus.edu
Liu Tao was born in Jiangxi Province, China. He obtained his B.Sc. under the supervision of Prof. Xie Jin at Nanjing University in 2020 and joined us in July 2020. He focuses on methodology development under visible-light irradiation by taking use of continuous micro-flow reactors. In his free time, he likes watching movies and listening to music.
Zhang Zhiqi
Year 2 PhD
zhangzhiqi@u.nus.edu
Zhang Zhiqi was born and raised in Jiangxi province, China. He received his B.S. (Applied Chemistry, 2017) and M.S. (Chemistry, 2020) from Tianjin University under the supervision by Prof. Ma Jun’an. And then, he joined us under the support of TJU-NUS Joint Institute to pursue his PhD degree, under co-supervision of Prof. Ma Jun’an. In his spare time, he likes playing badminton and watching movies.
Lei Zhexuan
Year 1 PhD
zhexuanlei@u.nus.edu
Zeng Hao
Year 1 PhD
e0708238@u.nus.edu
Zhexuan was born and raised in Wuhan, China. He obtained his B. Sc. degree in material chemistry in 2021 at Peking Universtiy, under the supervision of Prof. MA Yuguo. He joined us in August 2021 and will be working on flow synthesis. Zhexuan is a badminton enthusiast.
Zeng Hao was born and raised in Hunan province, China. He received his B.S. (Applied Chemistry, 2018) and M.S. (Organic Chemistry, 2021) from South China University of Technology under the supervision by Prof. Zhu Chuanle. In July 2021, He joined us under the support of TJU-NUS Joint Institute to pursue his PhD degree, under co-supervision of Prof. Ma Jun’an(Tianjin University). In his spare time, he likes playing basketball and listening to music.
Visiting Schloar & Student
Degong was born in 1995 in Shandong, China. He received B.S. from Northeast Forestry University in 2017. Currently he is a Ph.D candidate at Harbin Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Dafa Chen. In his spare time, he like playing table tennis and swimming.
Jingchao was born in 1993 in Inner Mongolia, China. She received B.S. from Northeast Agricultural University in 2016. Currently she is a Ph.D candidate at Tianjin University under the supervision of Prof. Tianyong Zhang. In her spare time, she like running and watching movies
Dai Peng was born in Anhui Province, China. He obtained his B.S. in 2014, and in 2017 he got M.S. degree under supervision of Prof Wu Lei at Nanjing Agricultural University. Currently he is a Ph.D candidate at Nanjing Agricultural University under the supervision of Prof. Weihua Zhang. In his spare time, he likes playing basketball and watching movies.
Yang Jian
Visiting Student
E0893126@u.nus.ed
Yang Jian was born in 1996 in Yunnan Province, China. He obtained his B.S. from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) in 2016. Currently he is a Ph.D candidate at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) under the supervision of Prof. Yujun Liang. In his spare time, he likes playing basketball and listening to music.
Master Student
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Jinhui was born in Hunan Province, China. He received his B.Sc. at Hengyang Normal University in 2011. Then he obtained his MSc in Organic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Cancheng Guo at Hunan University in 2014. After that, he joined Prof. Tan&Liu's group at South University of Science and Technology (SUSTC) as a research assistant. He joined us in August 2017 and carry out research in developing photochemistry. In his spare time, he like playing basketball and tennis.
Xu Jinhui
e0220135@u.nus.edu
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