Qiang-Shuai Gu is a tenure-track Associate Professor at the Shenzhen Grubbs Institute, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China (2008) and his Ph.D. in Organic Synthesis from The University of Hong Kong (2014). From 2013 to 2016, he worked with Prof. Dan Yang at The University of Hong Kong as a research assistant and then a postdoctoral fellow. In 2016, he joined the group of Prof. Xin-Yuan Liu in the Department of Chemistry at SUSTech as a visiting scholar and research assistant. He joined the SUSTech Academy for Advanced and Interdisciplinary Studies in 2017, where he served successively as Research Assistant Professor and Research Associate Professor. In 2024, he joined the Shenzhen Grubbs Institute as an associate research fellow and was promoted in October 2024 to tenure-track Associate Professor and Principal Investigator.

His research focuses on asymmetric catalysis, the synthesis of bioactive molecules, and carbohydrate chemistry. He has co-authored 70+ peer-reviewed publications, including 33 papers as (co-)first author and/or (co-)corresponding author, appearing in journals such as Nature Chemistry (4), Nature Catalysis (2), Nature Synthesis (1), Journal of the American Chemical Society (2), Angewandte Chemie International Edition (5), Nature Communications (2), CCS Chemistry (1), Accounts of Chemical Research (1), and Chemical Society Reviews (1), among others.

Research

Asymmetric catalysis, the synthesis of bioactive molecules, and carbohydrate chemistry