Prof. Shu-Li You (游书力) was born in 1975 in Luohe, Henan province, China, and received his BSc in chemistry from Nankai University in 1996. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) in 2001 under the supervision of Prof. Li-Xin Dai before doing postdoctoral studies with Prof. Jeffery W. Kelly at The Scripps Research Institute. From 2004, he worked at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation as a Principal Investigator before returning to SIOC in 2006. Since January 2017, He has been appointed as the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry.

His current research interests include asymmetric catalysis, synthetic methodology, natural product synthesis, as well as medicinal chemistry. Prof. Shu-Li You has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers and edited two books, and applied over 30 Chinese patents as a co-inventor. Dr. You’s papers have received total citations over 23000 and his h-index is 86 (until June 2022). He is the recipient of AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award (2011), RSC Merck Award (2015), Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation (2016), Novartis Chemistry Lectureship (2017/2018), State Natural Science Award (2nd class) (2017), and Xplorer Prize (2019).