Anna Wu　Associate professor

E-mail：wuna07@gxnu.edu.cn

Dr Na Wu (other name Anna Wu), as a singaporean Cantonese, was growing up in North Sea of China, and has embarked on an international journey to pursue her research career. She received her university training in organic synthesis first at the Shann’xi Normal University (02-06, BS in Chemistry) with Prof. Baolin Li and then at highly-ranked Peking University (PKU) (06-10, MS & PhD in Synthesis & Catalysis, emph. the use of Pauson-Khand reaction (PKR) in the total synthesis of (±)-Pentalenolactone-a Methyl Ester, (formally graduating in June 12) with Prof. Zhen Yang. NW has also held a visiting research stay at Durham University (10-11, Host: Prof. Todd Marder, co-supervised by Prof. Andy Whiting) where she studied palladium-thiourea catalysed enyne domino reactions. This was followed by a PDRA with Prof. Simon Woodward at Nottingham University in 2013, where she studied the trichloromethide addition mechanism. She also had a short research stay in the Prof. Zhixiang Yu group (PKU) studying DFT in Aug 2015. She was appointed as a teaching fellow by Guangxi Normal University (GXNU) in 2014 and holds a lecturership since 2015, supervising postgraduates in the research project and self-managing the lab. This allows her to start an independent research career. She was succesively promoted to associate professor in 2016. A year after, she took up Newton International fellowship in Oxford University and Durham University (Principal Investigator), awarded by Her Majesity's Royal Society in United Kingdom. She is also Early-Career Fellow in Durham Energy Institute.

Anna is the recipient of numerous awards and research grants, including Chinese Education Ministry Scholarship (06-11), Chinese Scholarship Council’s UK-China Joint Doctoral Scholarship (10-11); Research grants are awarded by the following organisations: State Key Lab (14-17), GXNU (14-17), Provincial Science Foundation to Young Investigator (15-16), PKU Shenzhen Graduate School (16-17) and National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (15-18), Newton International Fellowship (Royal Society) (2018-2020), Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence (2018), Durham Energy Institute Interdisciplinary Grant Scheme (2018-2019).

Out of the lab, Anna is an active player on the accordion, piano and electric board. Music is a crucial element to inspire her to be creative. 

For Anna's Royal Society's webpage https://royalsociety.org/people/na-wu-13736/

For Anna's academic staff webpage in Durham University https://www.dur.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/profile/?id=17174

For Anna's Fellow webpage in Durham Energy Institute https://www.dur.ac.uk/dei/aboutus/dei.fellows/