Lu Wang

Senior Preceptor and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in Chemistry at Harvard University

Lu Wang

Lu Wang is the Senior Preceptor and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University.1 2 As a preceptor, she teaches several undergraduate and graduate courses at Harvard, including1 2:

PHYSCI 10 - Quantum and Statistical Foundations of Chemistry
PHYSCI 11 - Foundations and Frontiers of Modern Chemistry: A Molecular and Global Perspective
CHEM 301 - Scientific Teaching and Communications: Practicum

In addition to teaching, Lu serves as the Director of the Department's Peer Study Leader Program and oversees the pedagogical and course administration training for the Department's preceptors.2 She has been awarded the Certificate of Excellence in Teaching multiple times by the Harvard Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.2

Prior to joining Harvard in 2013, Lu held a postdoctoral appointment at MIT and participated in developing and teaching a college chemistry curriculum at the founding year of Singapore University of Technology and Design.2 She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University in 2011, where she worked in Professor Charles Lieber's group on developing label-free silicon nanowire field-effect biosensors.2 Lu earned her B.S. in Chemistry from Peking University in 2006.2

Highlights

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Experience

Senior Preceptor and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in Chemistry at Harvard University (Mar 2023 - Present)

Senior Preceptor in Chemistry at Harvard University (Jul 2020 - Feb 2023), Preceptor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University (Aug 2013 - Jul 2020), Postdoctoral Associate, MIT-SUTD Collaboration at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sep 2011 - Jul 2013), Visiting Lecturer in Chemistry at Singapore University of Technology and Design (Jan 2012 - Sep 2012), Course Tutor, Bureau of Study Counsel at Harvard University (2009 - 2010), Teaching Fellow of Experimental Physical Chemistry at Harvard University (Jan 2007 - Jun 2008)

Education

B.Sc. in Chemistry from Peking University (2002 - 2006), Course in Commercializing Science and High Tech at Harvard Business School (2007), Ph.D. in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from Harvard University (2006 - 2011)