- Tsinghua Univ. and Hong Kong Baptist Univ. (BSc)
- UW-Madison(PhD with Sam Gellman)
- UC-Berkeley (Postdoc with Jean Fréchet)
- Nanyang Technological University (2009-), start independent career, currently Full Professor and President’s Chair in Chemistry, Singapore NRF Investigator
Research Interests: new activation and reaction modes enabled by NHC and other catalysts, chemo-/site-selective reactions of complex molecules such as saccharides, development and green manufacturing of (chiral) medicines and agrochemicals