Pu-Sheng Wang (left) was born in 1988 in Anhui, China. He received a B.S. in chemistry from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2010. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from USTC in 2015 under the supervision of Professor Liu-Zhu Gong. Then he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at USTC, and he was promoted to associate professor in 2018, where his group’s work has focused on asymmetric catalysis and radical chemistry.
Liu-Zhu Gong (right) was born in October 1970 in Henan, China. He graduated from Henan Normal University (1993) and received his Ph.D. (2000) from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a visiting scholar (Joint Ph.D. graduate student program) at the University of Virginia and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Munich (2003–2004). He was appointed an associate professor of Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000 and was promoted to a full professor in 2001. Since 2006, he has been a full professor of University of Science and Technology of China. He was appointed the Cheung Kong Scholar Professor of organic chemistry in 2007. His research interests include organocatalysis, organo/transition metal cooperative and relay catalysis, allylic C–H functionalization, and enantioselective total synthesis of natural products.
Left to Right: Pu-Sheng Wang, Liu-Zhu Gong