Wai Chung Fu,
Assistant Professor
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Wai Chung earned his B.Sc. (Honours) in Chemistry from Hong Kong Baptist University and his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). During his graduate studies with Professor Fuk Yee Kwong at PolyU, he focused on the development of phosphine ligands and challenging Pd-catalyzed coupling reactions. In 2018, he joined Professor Timothy F. Jamison’s lab at MIT as a Croucher Postdoctoral Fellow, where he developed a modular continuous flow synthesis of Imatinib and discovered novel reactivity in Wittig intermediates. He then returned to Hong Kong in 2020 and became a research assistant professor at PolyU. In July 2023, he was appointed as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at City University of Hong Kong. His current research interests include synthetic methodologies, and the discovery and application of new chemical reactions in continuous flow.
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