YiLu

About

Yi Lu received his B.S. from Peking University in 1986 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1992. After two years of postdoctoral research in Professor Harry B. Gray’s group at Caltech, Lu started his own independent career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994 as a tenure-tracked assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 2000, to full professor in 2004, and to the Jay and Ann Schenck Endowed Professor in 2010. In August of 2021, Lu moved to the University of Texas at Austin, becoming the Robert J.V. Johnson-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry.

Educational Qualifications

Postdoc, Professor Harry B. Gray Group, Caltech (1992-1994)
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles (1992)
B.S. Chemistry, Peking University (1986)

Select Awards & Honors

• Allen Distinguished Investigators (2022)
• National Academy of Inventors (NAI) fellow (2021)
• Joseph Chatt Award – Royal Society of Chemistry (2020)
• Applied Inorganic Chemistry Award – Royal Society of Chemistry (2015)
• Royal Society of Chemistry fellow (2015)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow (2007)
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor Award (2002-2006)
• Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1999–2001)
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (1998–2000)
• CAREER Award – National Science Foundation (1995–1998)

Related Websites

• Department of Chemistry
• Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Program at UT
• John Ring LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease (CID)
• Livestrong Cancer Institutes at the UT Dell Medical School
• Texas Materials Institute

Select Publications