Shuli You

Prof. Shu-Li You was born in 1975 in Luohe, Henan province, China, and received his BSc in chemistry from Nankai University in 1996. He obtained his PhD from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) in 2001 under the supervision of Prof. Li-Xin Dai before doing postdoctoral studies with Prof. Jeffery W. Kelly at The Scripps Research Institute. From 2004, he worked at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation as a Principal Investigator before returning to SIOC in 2006 as a Full Professor. During Jan. 2017 to Mar. 2023, he served as the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry. During 2019 to 2025, he served as the Deputy Director of SIOC. His current research interests include asymmetric catalysis, synthetic methodology, natural product synthesis, as well as medicinal chemistry. Prof. Shu-Li You has published over 410 peer-reviewed papers and edited two books, and applied over 30 Chinese patents as a co-inventor. Dr. You’s papers have received total citations over 32000 and his h-index is 101 (until June 2025). He is the recipient of AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award (2011), RSC Merck Award (2015), Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation (2016), China Youth Science and Technology Award (2016), Novartis Chemistry Lectureship (2017/2018), National Natural Science Award (2nd class) (2017), Xplorer Prize (2019), New Cornerstone Investigator Program (2023), Yoshida Prize (2024) and The Huang Yao-Zeng Organometallic Chemistry Award (2024).