Steve Zhou

Jianrong Steve Zhou 周建荣

passport name (pingying): ZHOU JIANRONG

Associate Professor, Principal Investigator

School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School

Block F, Room 312, 2199 Lishui Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen 518055, China

Email: jrzhou@pku.edu.cn Wechat: stevezhoujr

北京大学深圳研究生院化学生物学与生物技术学院

广东省深圳市南山区丽水路2199号北京大学深圳校区F栋312室邮编 518055

电邮 jrzhou@pku.edu.cn 微信 stevezhoujr

Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=jima2JkAAAAJ

Web of Science ResearcherID KQU-1812-2024

EDUCATION

1994-1998 B.Sc. in chemistry with first-class honors at National University of Singapore.

1998-2000 M.Sc. in chemistry at National University of Singapore. Supervisor: Teck-Peng Loh

2000-2005 Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Supervisor: Gregory C. Fu

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2005-2008 Postdoctoral researcher at Yale University and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Supervisor: John F. Hartwig

2008-2013 Singapore National Research Foundation Fellow (joint appointment)

2008-2019 Assistant Professor and Senior Research Scientist at Nanyang Technological University

2019 Associate Professor at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School2015-2019

SERVICE

2015-2019 Member of international advisory board of Organic Process Research and Development, an ACS journal

Since 2021 Member of the Topical Advisory Panel of Processes, an MDPI journal

Since 2021 Associate Editor in Organic Chemistry, Frontiers in Chemistry, a Frontiers journal

Since May 2025 Member of the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports, Nature portfolio

Since June 2025 Member of Advisory Board of Asymmetry, ELS Publishing

Since Sept 2025 Member of Advisory Editorial Board of Chiral Chemistry, Sciexplor Publishing

HONORS AND AWARDS

2008 Singapore National Research Foundation fellowship

2011-14 Asian Core Program Lectureship Awards

(2011 in Malaysia; 2012 in Taiwan; 2013 in Japan; 2014 in China)

2012 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award

2013, 2017 GSK-EDB Green and Sustainable Manufacturing Awards

2019 Bayer Investigator Award, Peking University-Bayer Translational Research Center

since 2021 Pengcheng Kongque Program Professor of Shenzhen

Since 2023, listed in the top-2% of most cited scientists for career and single-year impact (Sandford University).

Since 2023, listed in Global Scholar Academic Impact Rankings (Lifetime Academic Impact List and Single Year List).