Prof. Greg Fu was born in Galion, Ohio, in 1963. He received a B.S. degree in 1985 from MIT, where he worked in the laboratory of Prof. K. Barry Sharpless. After earning a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1991 under the guidance of Prof. David A. Evans, he spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Robert H. Grubbs at Caltech. In 1993, he returned to MIT, where he is currently a Professor of Chemistry. Prof. Fu received the Springer Award in Organometallic Chemistry in 2001, the Corey Award of the American Chemical Society in 2004, and the Mukaiyama Award of the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry of Japan in 2006. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prof. Fu serves as an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. His current research interests include metal-catalyzed coupling reactions, chiral-ligand design, and enantioselective nucleophilic catalysis.
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