Dr. Sanjun Zhi is a professor at Huaiyin Normal University in Jiangsu, China. He received his MS degree from Suzhou University in 2000, and his PhD degree in 2008 from Nanjing University under the supervision of Prof. Dr Yi Pan. He was a visiting scholar in Prof. Wei Zhang’s lab at the University of Massachusetts Boston from 2013-2014. His research is focused on the development of synthetic methods for the preparation of heterocyclic compounds.