Ning Jiao

Ning Jiao obtained his Ph.D. degree (2004) with Prof. Shengming Ma at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC). He then spent 2004-2006 as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Manfred T. Reetz at Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung. In 2007, he joined the faculty at Peking University as an Associate Professor, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2010, and is currently the Yangtze-river scholars distinguished Professor at Peking University. His current research efforts are focused on: 1) New methodologies development in Atom-Incorporation Reactions mainly on oxygenation, nitrogenation, and halogenation reactions; 2) The first-row transition metal catalysis and the inert C-C/C-H bonds functionalization; 3) Bioactive compounds synthesis and drug discovery. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society, and Associate Editor of Chemical Science.

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