Song Lin

Song Lin grew up in Tianjin, China. After obtaining B.S. from Peking University in 2008, Song embarked on his graduate studies at Harvard University working with Eric Jacobsen.

He then carried out postdoctoral studies with Chris Chang at UC Berkeley. In 2016, Song started his independent career at Cornell University, where he is currently a Tisch University Professor. Song has received several early career awards, including the Sloan Fellowship, ACS Cope Scholar, National Fresenius Award, Cottrell Scholar Award, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, NSF CAREER Award, MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35, BMS Unrestricted Grant, Lilly Research Award, and EPA Green Chemistry Challenge.

He is currently an Associate Editor at Organic Letters and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Chem, Synlett, Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron Letters, and Chemistry–A European Journal. The Lin Laboratory’s research lies at the interface between electrochemistry and organic chemistry, with the main objective of using fundamental principles of electrochemistry and radical chemistry to discover new organic transformations and uncover new reaction mechanisms.