Yi-Fan was born in Guangdong province, China in 2003. He has been highly interested in chemistry since junior high school and won several awards in Chemistry Olympiad in high school. During that period, Yi-Fan found his interest in organic chemistry and joined the Jiao group in 2022 as an undergraduate student. He is now working on the synethetic applications of the cooperative cycloolefin ligands in the Catellani-type reactions.
BSc in chemistry, 2025
Tsinghua University