Jiwu
Ruan was born in 1972. He received his B.Sc.
degree in chemistry from
Sichuan
University in 1994. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in organic
chemistry at the
Sun
Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University in 2004, under the direction
of Professor Lianquan Gu. In that year he joined
Professor
Albert S. C. Chan’s group as a postdoctoral researcher
working on the asymmetric catalysis at the
Hong
Kong Polytechnic University. In 2005 he joined Professor
Jianliang Xiao’s group as a postdoctoral researcher
at the
University
of Liverpool. His research interests include organic
synthesis, homogeneous catalysis, and medicinal chemistry.
His recent research focuses on asymmetric catalysis and
developing catalytic methodologies for novel coupling reaction. In 2011 he moved to Cambridge to take up a position in industry.
