Jia Niu is currently an associate professor of Chemistry at Boston College. Jia studied at Tsinghua University and earned a Bachelor of Science degree with the highest honor in 2005. After completing a Master of Science degree with Professor Xi Zhang in 2008, also at Tsinghua, he moved to the United States and joined Professor David R. Liu's group at Harvard University to pursue a Ph.D. degree. In 2014 he moved to University of California, Santa Barbara and became a joint postdoctoral fellow with Professor Craig J. Hawker and Professor H. Tom Soh. Jia joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry, Boston College in the summer of 2017.
Honors and Awards:
ACS CARB division David Y. Gin聽 New Investigator Award (2024)
Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2023)
American Chemical Society聽PMSE Division Young Investigator Award (2021)
NSF CAREER Award (2020)
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, Doctoral New Investigator (2019)
NIH Director's New Innovator Award (2019)
Beckman Young Investigator Award (2019)
Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2019)
Fieser Lecture Prize, Harvard University (2013)
Christensen Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement, Harvard University (2012 & 2013)
Harvard Merit Fellowship, Harvard University (2012)
Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University (2012)
Eli Lilly Organic Chemistry Fellowship, Harvard University (2012)
Excellent Master鈥檚 Thesis Award, Tsinghua University (2008)
Outstanding Bachelor Graduate of Tsinghua University (Top 2%) (2005)
National Scholarship of China 1st level (2004)
Chemistry Olympiads of China, 2nd Prize (2001)
Dr. Ming Zhang Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D.: Nankai University zhangmi@bc.edu
Members of the laboratory will receive training on a broad range of skills in synthetic organic chemistry, polymer synthesis and characterization, nucleic acid chemistry, bioconjugation chemistry, molecular biology, and cell biology.
