Zhi He (何智)

 

Collage of Chemistry, Room 918

Beijing Normal University

Xinjiekouwaidajie 19, Beijing, 100875, China

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E-mail: zhihe@bnu.edu.cn

 

 

Dr. Zhi He was born and grew up in the beautiful mountain city of Chongqing, southeast of China. Hereceived his undergraduate education at Peking University and started his graduate study in organic chemistry under the mentorship of Professor Andrei K. Yudin at the University of Toronto in 2004. Upon receiving a M.Sc. degree, he took up industrial positions and conducted drug discovery as a medicinal chemist in pharmaceutical companies. After nearly two years of doingindustrial research, he returned to the Yudin research group to continue his graduate study and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2012. He subsequently joined the laboratory of Professor Timothy F. Jamison at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral associate. In 2015, he received the research funding support from the Chinese national “Recruitment Program for Global Experts” (known as “the One-Thousand-Talents Plan”) for distinguished young scholars and began his independent career at Beijing Normal University, where his research program focuses on the development of new methods of organic synthesis and the implementation thereof in the synthesis of drug molecules or natural products.

 

 

Education

 

2008 – 2012    Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada

Advisor: Professor Andrei K. Yudin

 

2004 – 2006    M.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada

Advisor: Professor Andrei K. Yudin

 

1999 – 2003    B.Sc. in Chemistry, Peking University, P. R. China

Advisor: Professor Shrong-Shi Lin

 

 

Professional Experience

 

2015 – present      Professor, Beijing Normal University, Beijing , China

 

2012– 2015     Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Advisor: Professor Timothy F. Jamison

 

2006 – 2008    Research scientist in pharmaceutical industry

§  Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada

§  ApotexPharmachem Inc., Brantford, Canada

§  NPS Pharmaceuticals, Toronto, Canada

 

 

Awards and Honors

 

Special Opportunity Graduate Travel Fellowship, University of Toronto (2012)

Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Ontario, Canada (2011-2012)

Jim Guillet Chemistry Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto (2011-2012)

Edwin Walter Warren Graduate Student Award, University of Toronto (2011-2012)

Robert and Jean Hadgraft Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry, University of Toronto (2010-2011)

Teaching Reduction Award, University of Toronto (2010-2011)

Edwin Walter Warren Graduate Student Award, University of Toronto (2009-2010)

Academia Excellence Scholarship, Peking University (2000-2002)

Eyas Scholarship, Peking University (1999-2003)