Dr. Yong-Qiang Tu was born in Guizhou Province of China in 1958, and obtained his Bachelor degree in Organic Chemistry at Lanzhou University (LZU, China) in 1982. He received his M.S. degree (organic iodine chemistry) and Ph.D. (natural product chemistry) at LZU in 1985 and 1989 under the supervision of Prof. Wen-Kui Huang and Prof. Yao-Zu Chen, respectively. Later on he worked on the postdoctoral research in natural product chemistry with Prof. William Kitching at the University of Queensland, Australia (1993.1-1995.9), and then worked as a visiting professor at Bielefeld University, Germany, for three months. He served as the vice-Dean of Department of Chemistry (1996-1998) and the Director of State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry (2001-2010) at LZU. He got the Outstanding Youth Fund of NSFC in 1999. In 2009, he was elected as an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. During 2012-2018 he served as an Associate Editor of Chem.Commun., Royal Society of Chemistry. Currently, he is a fellow of Chinese Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry, and an advisory member of J. Org. Chem. editorial board. In 2014, he joined the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) and served as the Dean of this School (2018-2022).

Dr. Tu began his independent research since Oct, 1995 when he returned to Lanzhou University and got a full professor position. His research interest is focusing on the organic synthetic methodology, the total synthesis of natural products and pharmaceutical molecules as well as the organometallics chemistry. The major research achievements he has been made include: 1) the development of a series of efficient carbon- to-carbon migration-based synthetic methodologies; 2) the design and development of a versatile, highly efficient and modular catalyst family based on a simple chiral spirocyclic pyrrolidine (SPD) framework, which has enabled up to 30 kinds of significant asymmetric reactions/ transformations to date; 3) the design, synthesis and reactivity of a novel family of 6- and 7- membered-ring NHC-coordinated pincer-type organometallics; 4) completion of the efficient total synthesis of more than 30 bioactive natural or pharmaceutical molecules by developing highly efficient semipinacol rearrangement, cyclization/ cycloexpansion cascade strategies. He has published more than 260 academic papers on highly-impact international journals of chemistry, with total citations reaching 25830 and H-index 74 (up to Dec, 2022). He also obtained a number of academic prizes and awards.