- Innovation Award in 2021 at The University of Hong Kong
Dr He obtained his BS degree in Chemistry
from Zhejiang University where he conducted research in allene chemistry under
the direction of Prof. Shengming Ma. In August 2011, he moved to the Scripps
Research Institute (TSRI) as a TSRI Dean’s fellow, and began his graduate
studies under the supervision of Prof. Jin-Quan Yu, with a focus on
ligand-promoted C(sp3)–H activation using palladium catalysts. After finishing two-year postdoctoral work on
copper photocatalysis in the research group of Prof. Jonas C. Peters at the
California Institute of Technology, Dr He became an assistant professor at The
University of Hong Kong in August 2019. He has received multiple awards, including The Alfred R. Bader Award
for Student Innovation in 2014, International Precious Metals Institute Student Award in 2015, IUPAC-Solvay Honorable Mention Prize in 2017, and Croucher Innovation Award in 2021.
Currently
Dr He seeks to develop an interdisciplinary research
program at the interface between organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and
materials science, focusing on design of novel MOF- and polymer-based
heterogeneous catalysts for organic synthesis, especially in the fields of
asymmetric coupling and C–H activation.
Group website: http://www.helab.org
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NmxKhWMAAAAJ&hl=en