Richard Liu

Richard earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry and physics at Harvard University in 2015. There, he worked with Professors Theodore Betley and Eric Jacobsen on the development of new catalytic transformations. He then pursued doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the supervision of Professor Stephen Buchwald. Richard’s Ph.D. dissertation focuses on the reactivity of copper(I) hydride complexes. Since 2019, he has been a postdoctoral associate at MIT, carrying out research with Professor Timothy Swager on photochemical transformations performed on and by organic polymers.