1982-1993, B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Organic Chemistry at Lanzhou University, respectively (under the supervisions of Prof. Wen-Kui Huang and Prof. Yao-Zu Chen).

1993-1995, Postdoctoral Senior Research Fellow with Prof. William Kitching, the University of Queensland, Australia.

1995-Present, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University.

1996-1998, Vice Director, Department of Chemistry, Lanzhou University.

2001-2010, Director of the State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University.

2005, the Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholars Program, Ministry of Education.

2009, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

2012-2018, Associate Editor of the Chemical Communications (RSC).

2018-2022, Dean of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Dr. Tu is currently the executive director of the Chinese Chemical Society, a fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.