Dean's Chair Professor Jie Wu
ACCEPTING PHD STUDENTS
Faculty & Department
Joint Appointments
Professor, Integrative Sciences and Engineering
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Boston University, United States
Bachelor of Science, Beijing Normal University, China
Bio
Employment History
07/2024-06/2027 Assistant Head (MSc Programme & Enterprise), Department of Chemistry, NUS
07/2023-06/2026 Dean’s Chair Professor
07/2021-now Associate Professor (Tenured), Department of Chemistry, NUS
07/2021-now MSc Chemistry Program Director, NUS
07/2015-06/2021 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, NUS
02/2015-07/2015 Senior Research Scientist, Snapdragon Chemistry, Inc. Boston, MA, USA
07/2012-02/2015 SkolTech Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry & Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Academic Qualifications
09/2002-06/2006 B.Sc. (Chemistry), Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
09/2006-05/2012 Ph.D. (Chemistry), Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Contact Information
Dear prospective PhD students,
Welcome to our research group! We focus on cutting-edge areas such as advanced flow synthesis, photochemical synthesis, automated synthesis, and drug development. Our work is highly multidisciplinary, integrating principles from organic synthesis, catalysis, chemical engineering, and medicinal chemistry. Each year, we offer multiple PhD positions to students eager to contribute to impactful research in these fields.
I encourage you to explore our website to learn more about our team, our current projects, and the dynamic research environment we foster.
https://www.wujiegroupnus.com/
We look forward to the possibility of welcoming you to our group!
Jie
The overarching goal of Wu group’s research is to apply advanced engineered micro-tubing reactors to serve as better platforms to provide new chemical transformations and sustainable manufacturing with relevance to contemporary problems. Our lab is focusing on exploring new fundamental reactions that directly transform abundant feedstocks (natural gases, unfunctionalized alkanes and silanes) into value-added products in an atom- and step-economic fashion, and harvest visible-light by chemical means and using light-energy as energy input for chemical transformations.
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I would like to recruit students who truly love chemistry research and would like to explore and build future chemistry with my students together.