Jianbo Wang was born in 1962. He received his bachelor’s degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology in 1983, and his Ph.D. from Hokkaido University (under the supervision of Prof. Hiroshi Suginome) in 1990. He was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Geneva from 1990 to 1993 with Prof. Charles W. Jefford, and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1993 to 1995 with Prof. Howard E. Zimmerman. He began his independent academic career at Peking University in 1995 and was promoted to full professor in 1999. Prof. Wang’s research interests have focused on catalytic metal carbene transformations.