Shao-Xiong Lennon Luo, Ph.D.

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. David A. Weitz at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, developing high-throughput microfluidic platforms for massively parallel droplet sorting, enabling library-scale functional screening of single cells and biomolecules for applications such as directed enzyme evolution and targeted whole genome sequencing. I am also developing programmable supramolecular electronic devices based on molecular recognition in EGaIn-based tunneling junctions, co-advised by Prof. George M. Whitesides.

I was born in Shenzhen, China, and spent my formative years in Singapore. I received my Ph.D. in Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2023. At MIT, I worked in the laboratory of Prof. Timothy M. Swager on novel functional carbon nanomaterials for applications in chemical sensing (health diagnostics, environmental monitoring, industrial safety, food safety) and catalysis (renewable energy, decarbonization, tunable catalysis). I received my B.S. in Chemistry from California Institute of Technology in 2017. At Caltech, I worked in the laboratory of Prof. Robert H. Grubbs on the initiation kinetics of ruthenium-based olefin metathesis catalysts and new methodologies for organic and polymer chemistry. I have also worked at Genentech, Inc., Materia, Inc., and the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) in Singapore.  

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