Half a year after the establishment of Yang Jiao’s research group, a total of four new members have joined: postdoctoral fellow Yulin Zhang, Ph.D. students Zesheng Li, Hanyuan Liu, and research assistant Zhenkai Wang.

Yulin Zhang was born in Dalian, Liaoning Province. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University and then pursued a Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo in Japan, under the supervision of Prof. Yoshiaki Nishibayashi. His research focused on asymmetric coupling reactions of radicals, and he obtained a Ph.D. in Engineering in 2022. In June 2023, he joined Yang Jiao’s research group as a postdoctoral fellow, with a research direction in the development of stereoregulated polymerization reactions and the development of asymmetric coupling reactions in supramolecular catalysis.

Zesheng Li was born in Pingdingshan, Henan Province. He graduated from Shanghai High School in Shanghai and was awarded first prize in the Chinese Chemistry Olympiad, which led to his admission to the Chemistry College of Peking University. During his undergraduate studies, he participated in the total synthesis of natural products in Prof. Tuoping Luo’s research group. In March 2023, he joined Yang Jiao’s research group to study the synthesis of polyester polymers and graduated from Peking University in June 2023 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Biology. In September 2023, he started his Ph.D. in this group, with research interests in boron radical chemistry, supramolecular recognition of radical species, and the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

Hanyuan Liu was born in Hengyang, Hunan Province. He graduated from Changjun High School in Changsha and entered the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at Peking University through a chemistry competition in 2019. During his undergraduate studies, he conducted research on cobalt-catalyzed hydrogen atom transfer reactions in Prof. Rong Zhu’s research group. In June 2023, he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and received honors such as Outstanding Graduate of Beijing and Outstanding Graduate of Peking University. In September 2023, he was recommended for a Ph.D. program in the same institute, joining Yang Jiao’s research group, with research interests in designing and constructing novel polymers based on supramolecular and radical chemistry.

Zhenkai Wang was born in Xiangyang, Hubei Province. He studied at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences at Wuhan University, where he conducted research in the field of organic synthesis methodology in Prof. Wenbo Liu’s research group. In June 2020, he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and was recommended for a master’s degree at Zhejiang University’s Chemistry Department in September of the same year, where he worked on asymmetric carbon-hydrogen activation research with cheap metal cobalt catalysis in Prof. Bingfeng Shi’s research group. In June 2023, he obtained a Master of Science degree and joined Yang Jiao’s research group as a research assistant in September 2023, with research interests in the design of novel metal complex catalysts based on supramolecular chemistry and their applications in radical chemistry.

We warmly welcome the arrival of all the new members and look forward to their active performance in the new environment!

                                         Yulin Zhang                       Hanyuan Liu                       Zesheng Li                  Zhenkai Wang