Jie Wu

WU Jie joined NUS (Chemistry) in 2015 as an Assistant Professor. Prior to that, he was a Senior Scientist in Snapdragon Chemistry Inc, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. He has extensive experience in photochemical transformation using CO2 as an abundant feedstock; and continuous flow synthesis involving gaseous/liquid slug for large scale chemical production. His research is focused on developing green and sustainable chemical synthesis by integrating several novel technologies: i) photocatalysis (clean energy), ii) C–H and Si–H activation (atom-, step-economic synthesis), iii) natural gas-involved transformation (inexpensive feedstocks), iv) flow technology (sustainable process). His team’s long-term goal is to advance otherwise difficult or ineffective chemical reactions using advanced flow techniques, as well as to develop new strategies to aid automated multistep synthesis.

Education

• Postdoctoral Fellow (Organic Chemistry and Chemical Engineering), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015
• PhD Chemistry, Boston University, 2012
• BSc Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, 2006

Selected Awards & Honours

• 2020 The Distinguished Lectureship Award, The CSJ Asian International Symposium
• 2019 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award
• 2019 Asian Core Program Lectureship Award, Korea
• 2018 Young Chemist Award, Department of Chemistry, NUS
• 2018 Asian Core Program Lectureship Award, Thailand and Taiwan
• 2017 Asian Core Program Lectureship Award, China
• 2017 4th Green & Sustainable Manufacturing Award, The GSK-Singapore Partnership
• 2013-14 SkolTech Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests

• continuous-flow synthesis
• photochemistry
• green chemistry
• automated synthesis