Professor and Director of the Center for Green Chemistry
University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Boulevard Boston, MA 02125
Tel: (617)-287-6147; Fax: (617)-287-6030
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| HIGHLIGHTS
Received "2015 International Fluorous Technology Award"
Over 250 publications including 3 in Chemical Reviews, 4 Tetrahedron Reports, 2 books and 17 book chapters
Top three most published authors in fluorous chemistry (with Profs. Dennis P. Curran and John Gladysz)
Over 8,000 citations (H-Index 49), the top 1% of the cited authors for journals in the life sciences
$6 million NIH and other research funding
219 oral presentations
6 Issued US patents
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| EDUCATION
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1993 - 1995 Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor Prof. Paul Dowd), Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, PA
1989 - 1993 PhD in Organic Chemistry (Advisor Prof. Paul Dowd), Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, PA
1978 - 1982 BS in Chemistry (Analytical), Nanjing University, China
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| POSITIONS
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2013 - Professor and Director of the Center for Green Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, MA
2021 - Co-Director of Graduate Program, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, MA
2008 - 2013 Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Green Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, MA
2004 - 2008 Director of Discovery Chemistry, Fluorous Technologies, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA
2001 - 2004 Senior Scientist/Head of Combinatorial Chemistry, Fluorous Technologies, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA
1995 - 2001 Research Chemist/Section Chemist, DuPont Agricultural Products, Newark, DE
1993 - 1995 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, PA
1989 - 1993 Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, PA
1982 - 1989 Analytical Lab Group Leader, Jiangsu Pesticide Research Institute, Nanjing, China
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| OTHER POSITIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
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2017 - Guest Professor, Zhejiang Normal University
2015 - Faculty member, Entrepreneurship Center, College of Management, UMass Boston
2014 - Guest Professor, Shanghai Institute of Technology
2013 - Adjunt faculty, The Center and Institutes Committee for the School for the Environment, UMass Boston
2012 - Board member, ACS Green Chemistry Institute Curriculum Committee
2011 - Faculty advisory board member, Green Chemistry Commitment
2011 - Core member, Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness, UMass Boston
2011 - Member, University of Massachusetts Memorial Cancer Center of Excellence (UMMCCoE), MA
2009 - Member, University of Massachusetts Center for Clinical and Translational Science (UMCCTS), MA
2009 - Visiting Professor (Prof. Dennis Curran's Lab), University of Pittsburgh, PA
2008 - Associate member, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA
2008 - Guest Professor, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Jiangsu, China
2008 - Guest Professor, Chien-Shiung Institute of Technology, Jiangsu, China
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| EDITORIAL POSITIONS
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2023 Co-Guest Editor, ChemistryOpen, special issue on Multicomponent Reactions
2023 Co-Guest Editor, Molecules, special issue on Green and Highly Efficient One-Pot Synthesis and Catalysis
2022 Co-Guest Editor, iScience, special issue on Interdisciplinary Routes in Green Synthesis
2022- Advisory board, iScience
2019 Co-Guest Editor, Biomolecules, special issue on Natural Products and Bionanotechnology for Cancer and Disease Treatment
2019 Guest Editor, Molecules, special issue on Sustainable Synthesis
2016 - Section Editorial Board for 'Green Chemistry', Molecules (MDPI AG)
2015 - Editorial Board, Green Synthesis Book Series (CRC Press)
2015 - Editorial Advisory Board, Molecular Diversity (Springer)
2014 - 2018 Co-Editor-in-Chief, Current Green Chemistry (Bentham Science Publishers)
2012 - Editor, Green Processing and Synthesis (De Gruyter, Germany)
2011 - 2020 Editorial Advisory Board, ACS Combinatorial Science
2010 - 2011 Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry
2007 - 2015 Associate Editor, Molecular Diversity (Springer)
2006 Guest Editor, QSAR & Combinatorial Science, special issue on Fluorous Synthesis
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| ORGANIZED CONFERENCES
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2023 Symposium Co-chair, Green Technologies for Sustainable Access to Organic/Medicinal Targets, 2023 Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, Long Beach, CA
2020 Symposium Co-chair, Green Techniques for Organic & Medicinal Chemistry, PacifiChem 2020 (postponed to 2021), Hawaii
2019 Advisory Committee, 8th Int. Symposium on Fluorous Technology (ISoFT'19), Shanghai, China
2018 Organizing committee, 21th International Conference on Chemistry and Technology, Scotland
2017 Co-Chair, 7th Int. Symposium on Fluorous Technology (ISoFT'17), Boston
2016 Organizing committee, International Conference on Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Frankfurt, Germany
2016 Organizing committee, International Conference on Applied Chemistry, Houston
2016 International Advisory Board, Drug Discovery & Therapy World Congress, Boston
2015 Co-Chair, Symposium "New Green Techniques for Medicinal Chemistry", PacifiChem, Hawaii
2015 Organizing committee, 2nd International Conference on Past and Present Research Systems of Green Chemistry, Florida
2015 Co-Chair, 3nd Annual Symposium and Workshop of the Global Green Chemistry Centres (G2C2) Network, Boston
2015 International Advisory Board, Drug Discovery & Therapy World Congress, Boston
2014 Session Chair, BIT's 5th Annual International Congress of Medichem, Suzhou, China
2014 International Advisory Board, Drug Discovery & Therapy World Congress, Boston
2014 Session Chair, BIT's 3rd Annual Congress and EXPO of Advanced Materials, Chongqing, China
2013 Session Co-Chair, Green Techniques for Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery & Therapy World Congress, Boston
2010 Co-Chair, 3rd Int. Symposium on Green Processing in the Pharmaceutical & Fine Chemical Industries, Boston
2009 Organizing committee, 3rd Int. Symposium on Fluorous Technology (ISoFT'09), Wyoming
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| AWARDS AND HONORS |
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2023 Received "Outstanding Research for Tenured Faulty Award" College of Science and Mathematics, UMass Boston
2017&2016 Review panel, US Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, Whashigton DC
2016 Plenary Speaker, Drug Discovery & Therapy World Congress 2016, Boston MA
2016 Plenary Speaker, 1st International Conference on Applied Chemistry, Hurghada, Egypt
2015 International Fluorous Technologies Award and Plenary Speaker, ISOFT2015, Como, Italy
2015 Plenary Speaker, 5th International Conference for Young Chemists, Penang, Malaysia
2015 UMass Boston Outstanding Faculty
2015 Earth Day month invited speaker at Harvard University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department
2015 Plenary Speaker, 13th IBN SINA International Conference on Pure and Applied Heterocyclic Chemistry, Hurghada, Egypt
2013 Keynote Speaker, International Workshop on Organofluorine Chemistry 2013, Nanjing, China
2012 Keynote Speaker, 5th Symposium on Fluorous Science, Japan
2011 Plenary Speaker, 4th International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies, Hong Kong
2010 North American delegation member of DAAD Scince Tour 2010, German Academic Exchange Service
2010 Visiting Lecture Award, Chemistry Research Promotion Center, Taiwan
2008 Tetrahedron Top 50 Most Cited Articles (2005-2008) Award
2007 Tetrahedron Letters Top 50 most Cited Articles (2004-2007) Award
2007 Best Poster Award, Combinatorial Chemistry Gordon Research Conference, New Hampshire
2006 Tetrahedron Top 50 Most Cited Articles (2003-2006) Award
2006 Best Poster Award, Int. Symposium Chem. Biology & Combinatorial Chem. Jinan, China
2005 Top 1% of the cited authors for journals in the Life Sciences, Essential Science Indicators
2003 Best Poster Award, CHI Conference on Microwave-Assisted Organic Synthesis, San Diego
2003 GlaxoSmithKline HIV Drug Discovery and Development Research Award
1998 DuPont Agricultural Products, Global Technology Accomplishment Award, Delaware
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