Prof. Jun Lu
Personal Profile
Jun Lu earned his bachelor's degree from Changchun Normal University in 2012. He completed his Ph.D. in 2018 under the mentorship of Prof. Kun Liu in the Chemistry Department at Jilin University. His doctoral research focused on enhancing asymmetrical light-matter interactions using achiral plasmonic nanorods functionalized with polypeptides linked to various human diseases.
Following a brief postdoctoral transition in his Ph.D. advisor's lab, he joined the University of Michigan in 2019, where he conducted postdoctoral training in Prof. Nicholas A. Kotov's lab. There, he explored inorganic materials with multiscale chirality, focusing on manipulating photon spin angular momentum, its underlying mechanisms, and diverse applications. In February 2025, Dr. Jun Lu began his appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Physics at the NUS.
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Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics,
Presidential Young Professorship,
National University of Singapore​
Email: jun_lu@nus.edu.sg
Education
05/2024–01/2025
Research investigator – Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, USA
05/2019–04/2024
Postdoc – Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, USA
02/2018–04/2019
Postdoc – Department of Chemistry, Jilin University, China
02/2014–01/2018
Ph.D. – Department of Chemistry, Jilin University, China
09/2012–02/2014
M.S. – Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, China
09/2008–07/2012
B.S. – Department of Physics, Changchun Normal University, China
AWARDS
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Presidential Young Professorship, NUS (2024)
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Best Poster Award at Annual Conference of Chinese Chemical Society (2016)
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Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, Jilin University (2014−2016)
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Second Prize in Challenger Cup Mathematical Modeling (2009)