Work Experience

2011-2013 Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, post-doctoral
2013-2014 Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, post-doctoral
2015-2021 Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, assistant professor
2021-2025 Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, associate professor
2025-present Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, professor

Research Areas

Atomically precise manufacturing of future materials 
Atomic-precision catalysts for renewable energy conversions and sustainable manufacturing
Atomic-scale quantum nanoscience

Honor & Award
National Research Foundation Competitive Research Programme (CRP) 2023 
Dean’s Chair Professorship, NUS 2023
Young Research Award, NUS 2022
Young Scientist Award, NUS Science 2021
Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigators 2019  

Representitive Publications
1. Geminal-atom catalysis for cross-coupling 
Xiao Hai, Yang Zheng, Qi Yu, Na Guo, Shibo Xi*, Xiaoxu Zhao, Sharon Mitchell, Xiaohua Luo, Victor Tulus, Mu Wang, Xiaoyu Sheng, Longbin Ren, Xiangdong Long, Jing Li, Peng He, Huihui Lin, Yige Cui, Xinnan Peng, Jiwei Shi, Jie Wu, Chun Zhang, Ruqiang Zou, Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez, Javier Pérez-Ramírez*, Ming Joo Koh*, Ye Zhu*, Jun Li* & Jiong Lu* 
Nature 10.1038/s41586-023-06529-z, 2023
2. Atomically-precise Vacancy-assembled Quantum Antidots
Hanyan Fang, Harshitra Mahalingam, Xinzhe Li, Xu Han, Zhizhan Qiu, Yixuan Han, Keian Noori, Dikshant Dulal, Hongfei Chen, Pin Lyu, Tianhao Yang, Jing Li, Chenliang Su, Wei Chen, Yongqing Cai, Antonio Castro H Neto, Kostya S Novoselov, Aleksandr Rodin* and Jiong Lu*
Nature Nanotechnology 10.1038/s41565-023-01495-z, 2023
3. Ferromagnetic single-atom spin catalyst for boosting water splitting
Tao Sun, Zhiyuan Tang, Wenjie Zang, Zejun Li, Jing Li, Zhihao Li, Liang Cao, Jan Sebastian Dominic Rodriguez, Carl Osby M. Mariano, Haomin Xu, Pin Lyu, Xiao Hai, Huihui Lin, Xiaoyu Sheng, Jiwei Shi, Yi Zheng, Ying-Jui Lu, Qian He, Jingsheng Chen, Kostya S Novoselov, Cheng-Hao Chuang*, Shibo Xi*, Xin Luo* and Jiong Lu*
Nature Nanotechnology 18, 763–771, 2023
4. Scalable two-step annealing method for preparing ultra-high-density single-atom catalyst libraries
Xiao Hai, Shibo Xi, Sharon Mitchell, Karim Harrath, Haomin Xu, Dario Faust Akl, Debin Kong, Jing Li, Zejun Li, Tao Sun, Huimin Yang, Yige Cui, Chenliang Su, Xiaoxu Zhao*, Jun Li*, Javier Pérez-Ramírez* & Jiong Lu*
Nature Nanotechnology 17 (2), 174-181, 2022
5. Printable two-dimensional superconducting monolayers
Jing Li, Peng Song, Jinpei Zhao, Kristina Vaklinova, Xiaoxu Zhao, Zejun Li, Zhizhan Qiu, Zihao Wang, Li Lin, Meng Zhao, Tun Seng Herng, Yuxin Zuo, Win Jonhson, Wei Yu, Xiao Hai, Pin Lyu, Haomin Xu, Huimin Yang, Cheng Chen, Stephen J. Pennycook, Jun Ding, Jinghua Teng, A. H. Castro Neto, Kostya S. Novoselov,* Jiong Lu*
Nature Materials, 20 (2), 181-187, 2021

NUS Webpage

https://chemistry.nus.edu.sg/people/lu-jiong/