Jia Niu is currently an assistant professor of Chemistry at Boston College. Born in Shijiazhuang, China, Jia studied Chemistry at Tsinghua University and earned a Bachelor of Science degree with the highest honor in 2005. After completing a Master of Science degree with Professor Xi Zhang in 2008, also at Tsinghua, he moved to the United States and joined Professor David R. Liu’s group at Harvard University to pursue a Ph.D. degree. In 2014 he moved to University of California, Santa Barbara and became a joint postdoctoral fellow with Professor Craig J. Hawker and Professor H. Tom Soh. Jia joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry, Boston College in the summer of 2017.
Honors and Awards:
- NSF CAREER Award (2020)
- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, Doctoral New Investigator (2019)
- NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (2019)
- Beckman Young Investigator Award (2019)
- Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2019)
- Fieser Lecture Prize, Harvard University (2013)
- Christensen Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement, Harvard University (2012 & 2013)
- Harvard Merit Fellowship, Harvard University (2012)
- Excellent Master’s Thesis Award, Tsinghua University (2008)
- Outstanding Bachelor Graduate of Tsinghua University (Top 2%) (2005)