School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering,

East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

Email: lxu@chem.ecnu.edu.cn

Biography

Lin Xu received his PhD degree in chemistry from East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST, Shanghai) in 2012 under the supervision of Professor Xuhong Qian. Subsequently, he joined East China Normal University (ECNU, Shanghai) as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2014. After two years (from 2015 to 2017) of postdoctoral research in Professor Jonathan Nitschke's group at University of Cambridge, he returned to ECNU and was promoted to professor in 2018. His research interests focus mainly on supramolecular chemistry including supramolecular self-assembly and fluorescence sensing.