Professor Loi Do was born in Vietnam and spent most of his youth in California. He obtained his B.S. in Chemistry/Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) where he conducted undergraduate research with Prof. Seth Cohen at UCSD on supramolecular chemistry and Prof. Stephen Lippard at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on conjugated fluorescent probes for reactive nitrogen oxide species. He returned to MIT for his doctoral degree under the tutelage of Prof. Lippard working on synthetic diiron protein modeling chemistry. Then, he completed postdoctoral research with Prof. John Bercaw at the California Institute of Technology investigating the mechanism of selective ethylene trimerization by homogenous chromium catalysts.

He is now an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston where his group broadly study organometallic chemistry. Specifically investigating intracellular and polymerization catalysis. He is also a member of the NSF Center for Integrated Catalysis (CIC) which is to design catalysts with spatial and temporal control to make products from simple starting materials.

For more information about Prof. Do and his research group: https://sites.google.com/view/doresearch/home

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NSF Center for Integrated Catalysis: https://cicchemistry.com/