Boyu Li

Boyu was born and raised in Qingdao, in Shandong Province, China. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Pharmacy in 2015 from Shandong University, Weihai.

After failure in the entrance exam to the grad school, he gave it another try and made it to Lanzhou University in northwest China in 2016. He undertook a master's programme there, focused on asymmetric catalysis under the supervision of Prof. Wenjin Yan and got a Master's degree in Medicine in 2019.

He joined the Cooper Group in September 2019 and started his doctorate research on automated synthesis under the supervision of Andy Cooper and John Ward.