Jie Wu was born in 1983 and raised in Sichuan Province (P. R. of China). He received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Beijing Normal University (P. R. of China) in 2006. He then moved to Boston University (USA) to obtain a Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. James S. Panek in 2012, focusing on natural product synthesis. From 2010 to 2012, during his Ph.D. studies, he also worked at the Boston University Center for Chemical Methodology & Library Development (BU-CMLD), directed by Prof. John A. Porco. He then was appointed as SkolTech Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Timothy F. Jamison and Prof. T. Alan Hatton at MIT (USA) from 2012 to 2014, where he worked on the development of continuousflow synthetic methods. After working as a senior scientist in Snapdragon Chemistry Inc., he joined the department of chemistry at the National University of Singapore (Singapore) as an assistant professor in 2015. His research interests explore the broad areas of flow chemistry, photochemistry, and green chemistry. In 2017, he was awarded the 4th Green & Sustainable Manufacturing Award from GSK-Singapore, and the Asian Core Program Lectureship Award from China. In 2018, he received the Young Chemist Award from the Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore, and an Asian Core Program Lectureship Award from Taiwan and Thailand. In 2019, he received the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award.