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Group photo 2019
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
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.
From July. 2012 - March. 2015, 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.
From Sep 2006 - May 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.
From Sep 2002 - July 2006 he was an undergraduate student at Beijing Normal University worked with Prof. Zhang Zhanbin.
In his spare time, Jie likes to play basketball and badminton.
Postdoc Fellow
Dr. Yan Jianming
chmyanj@nus.edu.sg
Jianming was born and raised in Sichuan, China. He obtained his B.Sc at China Pharmaceutical University in 2010. After that he explored in Natural-Product medicinal chemistry and obtained his Master’s degree in 2013 under Prof Hu Lihong at Shanghai Institute of Material Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He then studied transition metal-catalyzed C–H activation at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and obtained his PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. Naohiko Yoshikai. In May 2018, he joined us as a postdoc fellow and extended his research on C–H activation using photocatalysis. In his spare time, he likes reading and running.
Dr. Wang Han
Han was born in Shanxi Province, China. He completed his undergraduate studies at East China University of Science and Technology. After that he worked on NHC-catalyzed asymmetric synthesis at Shanghai University of Engineering Science and obtained his Master’s degree under the supervision of Prof. Xu Jingli and Prof. Sun Zhihua. He received Ph.D. from RWTH Aachen University with Professor Carsten Bolm where he studies sulfoximine chemistry. Then, Han moved to NUS and joined the Wu lab in the November 2018.
Dr. Tang Xinxin
Xinxin was born in Fujian Province, China. He completed his undergraduate studies at Wuhan University. After that he worked on transition metal catalyzed alkane functionalization at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry and obtained his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Huang Zheng. Then, He moved to NUS and joined the Wu lab in Octomber 2019. In his spare time, he likes reading, watching movies and running.
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Cao Hui
Cao Hui was born in 1991 in Jiangsu, China. Before joining Wu’s group, he received B.S. (2012) and M.S. (2015) degree in chemistry from Fudan University under the supervision of Prof. Xiufeng Hou. He has been interested in transition metal catalysis and his current project is “sustainable synthesis of value-added chemicals using gaseous feedstocks in flow systems”. He enjoys different genres of music and likes to play badminton.
Fan Xuanzi
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.
PhD Student
Wu Wenbin
Year 4 PhD
Wenbin was born and raised in Guangdong Provice, China. He obtained his B.Sc. at South China University of Technology (SCUT) in 2010. After that he worked on azolation of indoles and obtained his Master Degree at SCUT under the supervision of Prof. Jing-Mei Huang in 2013. From 2013 to 2016, he went on his research about cleavage of lignin as a research assistant in the same group. He joined us in August 2016 and focused on developing new catalysts. In his spare time, he likes watching movies.
Xu Jinhui
Year 4 PhD
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.
Toh Ren Wei
Year 4 PhD
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.
Tang Haidi
Year 2 PhD
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.
Shi Xiangcheng
Year 2 PhD
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).
Wang Mu
Year 2 PhD
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
Year 2 PhD
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
Li Qingyao
Year 2 PhD
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.
Liu Tao
Year 1 PhD
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.
Dr. Yu Jiajia
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.
Visiting Schloar & Student
Master Student
