Young Researcher Award 2021
March 17, 2022
CITATION FOR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WU JIE
YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD 2021
This year’s Young Researcher Award recipient, Associate Professor WU Jie, is a rising star in the field of continuous-flow synthesis and photocatalysis, a multidisciplinary area covering organic chemistry and engineering aspects.
His research group invented “stop-flow micro-tubing” reactors and pioneered novel technology for end-to-end automated synthesis of APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredients), which have the potential to change how the pharmaceutical industry develops drugs.
Since joining the Faculty of Science in 2015, Assoc Prof Wu Jie has gained international recognition and standing for his research. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers (as corresponding author) including many papers in top-tier journals such as Nature Chemistry, Chem, and Journal of the American Chemical Society. He is also a regular speaker at international conferences and symposiums, and a recipient of numerous prestigious awards in organic chemistry.
He plans to commercialise his technology, for which he has filed four patents to date.
Congratulations, Assoc Prof Wu Jie, on receiving the Young Researcher Award 2021!
