Connie Lu
University of Bonn
Biography
My research interests span inorganic and organometallic chemistry, especially topics in chemical bonding, electronic structure, reactivity and catalysis. My research group designs and develops bimetallic active sites, primarily in molecular complexes but also in metal-organic frameworks, to harness metal-metal interactions for small-molecule activation and catalysis.
I was born in Taipei, Taiwan and grew up in Miami, Florida, USA. I earned a BS degree from MIT and a PhD degree from Caltech with Jonas Peters. I was an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck for Bioinorganic Chemistry with Karl Wieghardt. I started my independent career at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2009, received tenure in 2015, and became full professor in 2020.
Honors and awards include a NSF CAREER Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and a Bessel Research Award. I have served on the editorial boards of Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Society Reviews, and Dalton Transactions and as the chair of the Coordination Chemistry subdivision in the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, ChemComm