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Youai Qiu
Professor
Organic electrosynthesis & transition-metal catalysis & Small-molecule Activation
Academic Career
2020.9-now Professor (tenure-track), State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
2019.11-2020.9 Visiting Researcher, RIKEN, Wako, Japan (With Prof. Zhaomin Hou, JSPS Fellowship).
2017.9-2019.11 Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany (with Prof. Lutz Ackermann).
2015.9-2017.8 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, Sweden (with Prof. Jan-Erling Bäckvall).
2007.7-2009.5 R&D Engineer, J&K Chemical (Suzhou), China.
Education
2010.9-2015.6 Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, China. Received Ph.D. degree in June, 2015 (with Prof. Shengming Ma).
2003.9-2007.7 Department of Chemical Engineering & Technology, China University of Mining and Technology. Received B.Sc. degree in July, 2007 (with Prof. Xianyong Wei)
Research Areas
(1) Green Organic Chemistry: Organic Electrosynthesis
(2) Transition-metal Catalysis and Organocatalysis
(3) Small-molecule Activation and Radical Chemistry
Awards
2023: ACP Lecture Award to Japan
2023: Thieme Chemistry Journals Award
2021: National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program(Overseas)
2020: Nankai University Hundred Young Academic Leaders Program
2019: JSPS Fellowship
2015: Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang University
