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Prof. Wu Jishan 

  • Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore (NUS)

  • Office: Office: MD1 #14-03H (Tahir Foundation Building)

  • Designation: Full Professor

  • Email: chmwuj[at]nus.edu.sg

  • ORCID: 0000-0002-8231-0437

  • Researcher ID: J-5898-2013

  • Contact No: (65) 6516 2677

  • Twitter (X): @jishan_wu

Prof. Jishan Wu (吴继善) received BSc degree in chemistry from Wuhan University (1997), MSc degree from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2000, with Xianghong Wang and Fosong Wang), and PhD degree from Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research (2004, with Klaus Müllen). He conducted postdoc study in the University of California at Los Angeles (2005-2007, with Sir Fraser Stoddart) and then joined the Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore (NUS) as an assistant professor in 2007. He was promoted to a full professor in 2017. In recent years, his group has done intensive research on open-shell singlet diradicaloids, 3D global aromaticity, and topological molecular carbons. He holds more than 350 publications, which total citations over 26,200 (H index: 81 based on Google Scholar, as of Oct 31st, 2023). He has received 20+ awards including the NUS Young Investigator Award (2007), Singapore Young Scientist Award (2010), NUS Young Researcher Award (2012), and NRF Investigatorship (2019). He was listed as one of the highly cited researchers (cross field) from the Clarivate Analytics.

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Research Interests

Open-shell singlet diradicaloids; 2D and 3D aromaticity; magnetism; nanographenes; graphene nanoribbons; topological molecular carbons; near infrared dyes; organic electronics; organic photonics; organic spintronics; quantum information processing

Current position and past employment history

2024.07-
Provost's Chair Professor
Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore (NUS)
2017.07-
Full Professor
Department of Chemistry, NUS
2014.07-2017.06
Dean's chair Professor
Department of Chemistry, NUS
2012.1-2017.06
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry, NUS
2010.8-2018.03
Senior Scientist I/II
IMRE, A*STAR (joint appointment)
2007.7-2011.12
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, NUS
2005.10-2007.6
Research Associate
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, with Sir Fraser Stoddart
2004.5-2005.9
Project Leader
Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research

Academic qualifications

2000.11-2004.5
PhD in chemistry
Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, with Prof. Klaus Müllen
1997.9-2000.7
Masters in polymer science
Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS, with Prof. Xianhong Wang and Prof. Fosong Wang
1993.9-1997.7
BSc in chemistry
Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University

Awards and Honour

  1. NUS Young Investigator Award (2007)

  2. Asian Core Program Lectureship Award from Japan (2009)

  3. Singapore National Young Scientist Award (2010)

  4. Young Chemist Award, Department of Chemistry, NUS (2011)

  5. Young Scientist Award, Faculty of Science, NUS (2011)

  6. NUS Young Researcher Award (2012)

  7. BASF-Singapore National Institute of Chemistry Award in Materials Science (2012)

  8. Invited Lecturer of Asian Excellence from the Japanese Society of Polymer Science (2012)

  9. Asian Core Program Lectureship Award from Hong Kong (2012)

  10. Distinguished Lectureship Award from the Chemical Society of Japan (2013)

  11. Outstanding Chemist Award, Department of Chemistry, NUS (2013)

  12. Dean’s Chair Professorship (2014)

  13. Lead PI of MOE Tier 3 programme (2015)

  14. Faculty of Science Outstanding Scientist Award (2015)

  15. Asian Core Program Lectureship Award from Taiwan (2016)

  16. Asian Core Program Lectureship Award from Thailand (2016)

  17. Asian Core Program Lectureship Award from Japan (2017)

  18. Asian Core Program Lectureship Award from Korea (2017)

  19. Highly Cited Researcher (Cross Field) from Clarivate Analytics (2018)

  20. National Research Foundation Investigatorship (2019)

  21. Singapore National Institute of Chemistry (SNIC) Fellow (2020)

  22. Editorial Advisory Board Member of Chem (2020-)

  23. Editorial Advisory Board Member of JACS (2024-)

  24. Andrews Lectureship from University of New South Wales (2024)

  25. Provost' Chair Professorship (2024)

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