Lingling Chu was born in Anhui Province (China). She obtained her BSc in Engineering from Hefei University of Technology in 2007 and her PhD from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) in 2012, working with Professor Feng-Ling Qing on Organofluorine chemistry. She then spent three years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Professor David MacMillan at Princeton University, working on photoredox catalysis. In 2016, she began to start her own research group as a Professor at Donghua University. Her research interest focuses on the field of transition metal catalysis and radical chemistry.