finished his undergraduate study in 1991 with a BS degree in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and then went to Cornell University receiving his MS and PhD degrees in 1993 and 1996, respectively. Following a postdoctoral appointment in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he started his independent career in Southern Illinois University in 1998. In summer 2004, he moved to the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC). He is currently a Professor of Chemistry and the Faculty Director of the UCSC COSMOS program. He can be reached at shaowei@ucsc.edu. Here is his Google Scholar Citation link.