Faculty Investigator, Seed

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.