Dr. Jianchun Wang, Associate Professor (Researcher), Ph.D. Supervisor, and Principal Investigator, joined the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in October 2021. His research focuses on organic electrosynthesis, particularly the development of novel chemically modified electrodes and innovative electrocatalysts to address long-standing challenges in organic chemistry.
Dr. Wang received his B.S. degree from Peking University in 2014, under the mentorship of Prof. Yuguo Ma. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago in 2019, advised by Prof. Guangbin Dong, where he developed several new catalysts for Pd/norbornene cooperative catalysis that addressed key limitations in this field, including the well-known “ortho-constraint” and “aryl constraint.” From 2019 to 2021, he conducted postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology under Nobel Laureate Prof. Robert H. Grubbs, where he developed polymer-modified interfacial electrocatalysts to improve the selectivity of electrochemical CO₂ reduction.
To date, Dr. Wang has published 29 peer-reviewed papers, which have been cited over 2,100 times. As an independent investigator, he has published as the corresponding author in Nature Catalysis (1 paper), JACS (1 paper), and Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (1 paper). Prior to independence, he published 12 papers as first or co-corresponding author in top-tier journals, including Nature Chemistry (2 papers), JACS (3 papers), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (3 papers), Chem (1 paper), and Chemical Reviews (1 paper).
Selected Awards:
2021, National NSF for Excellent Young Scientists
2020, Reaxys PhD Prize, winner
2018, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self Financed Students Abroad
2018, William Rainey Harper Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award
The Wang group at SUSTech is focused on electrochemical organic synthesis
Especially, we are interested in borrowing new concepts from the field of material sciences, so that we can design novel new electrocatalysts and explore novel and simple solutions for top challenges in organic chemistry!
