Chunyan Chi

Chunyan Chi received her PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in 2004. Afterward, she conducted her postdoctoral work at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 2005 to 2007. She is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research interests include the synthesis of extended π-electron systems with novel structures, aromaticity, organic diradicaloids, dyes, liquid crystals, and functional materials for organic electronics. She has received Asian Core Program Lectureship Awards from Japan (2013), China (2014), Taiwan (2014), Hong Kong (2019), and South Korea (2023); the Young Chemist Award from the Department of Chemistry at NUS in 2016; the Distinguished Lectureship Award from the Chemical Society of Japan in 2017; and the Singapore National Institute of Chemistry (SNIC) Distinguished Woman Chemist Award in 2024. She is an associate editor of Organic Letters and serves on the advisory boards of several journals, including the Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Materials Advances, Chemistry-A European Journal, Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, and others.