Chi P. Ting

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Edison-Lecks Rm 322

chiting at brandeis.edu

Education

B.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2012)

Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley (2017)

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2017-2020)

Chi P. Ting was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.S. degree in chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, where he worked under the direction of Prof. Steven Zimmerman. In 2012, he began doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley working with Prof. Tom Maimone. For his Ph.D., Chi completed the total syntheses of aryltetralin lignans and complex meroterpenes. At Berkeley, Chi was the recipient of a NSF predoctoral fellowship and the Bristol-Myers Squibb graduate fellowship. In 2017, he returned to the University of Illinois for postdoctoral studies in biochemistry. In the van der Donk lab, he studied the biosynthesis of amino acid-derived natural products as a NIH postdoctoral fellow. In 2020, Chi started his independent career at Brandeis University as an assistant professor of chemistry.

Awards 

NSF CAREER Award 2024

Thieme Chemistry Award 2024

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow 2018-2020

Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowship 2016-2017

AbbVie Scholar 2015

NSF Predoctoral Fellowship 2013-2016

Bronze Tablet – University Honors 2012

Robert Doremus Scholarship 2011