Profile

Lorenzo obtained his PhD from the Australian National University in 2016. His research involves the total synthesis of biologically interesting natural products, with a particular emphasis on chemoenzymatic and radical-based methodologies. He currently holds one “National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) grant for Foreign Young Scholars” and one “Guangdong Provincial Key Talent Introduction Plan Outstanding Young Scientist program” award. As of December 2025, A/Prof. Lorenzo White has published 43 high-impact academic papers in internationally renowned journals such as Angewandte Chemie (IF: 16.9), Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition (IF: 11.1), and Organic Letters (IF: 4.9). He has applied for 2 invention patents. He is fluent in English, Italian, French, and Chinese.

Education&Professional Experience

2025.05-present
Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced and Applied Chemical Synthesis, Jinan University

2024.01-2024.12
Lecturer (Academic Level B), The University of Sydney, Australia

2023.01-2023.12
Independent Research Fellow, École Polytechnique, France
2020.04-2022.12
Foreign Young Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced and Applied Chemical Synthesis, Jinan University
2019.03–2020.06
Professional Editor (Science), AsiaEdit
2019.06–2019.12
Editor for the Physical and Life Sciences, Cambridge Proofreading and Editing
2017.11–2019.02
External Scientific Evaluator, Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA)
2016.10–2017.10
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

2012.02-2016.10

PhD (Organic Chemistry), Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Australia. Supervisor: Professor Martin Banwell

2015

PhD Exchange Program, DCSO Laboratory, École Polytechnique, France. Supervisor: Professor Samir Zard

2006.02-2011.12

Bachelor of Science (Specialty: Organic Chemistry), Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Australia

Representative Publications in Recent 5 Years

1. Sun, S, Zhang, Y., Banwell, M. G., White, L. V., * Zhou, L.* Iridium-Catalyzed, Highly Selective Allylation of Pyrazolones for the Expeditious Construction of Adjacent Stereocenters Org. Lett. 2024, 26, 10229–10234. 影响因子（4.9）一区

2. Tan, S., Dorokhov, V. S., White, L. V.*, & Zard, S. Z.* Synthesis of 4-Alkyl-2-chloro Imidazoles Using Intermolecular Radical Additions. Org. Lett., 2024, 26, 5989–5994. 影响因子（4.9）一区

3. Tan, S., Zard, S. Z., Pham, L. N., Coote, M. L., Banwell, M. G., Lan, P., & White, L. V. * Short Formal Syntheses of Lycorine and Congeners Using a 5-Endo-Trig/6-Endo-Trig Radical Cyclization Sequence. 2024, Org. Lett., 26, 4292–4296. 影响因子（4.9）一区

4. Teng, Y., Lan, P., White, L. V., * & Banwell, M. G. * The useful biological properties of sucrose esters: Opportunities for the development of new functional foods. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2024, 64, 8018–8035. 影响因子（11.8）一区

5. White, L. V., Hu, N., He, Y. T., Banwell, M. G., & Lan, P. (2022). Expeditious access to morphinans by chemical synthesis. Angewandte Chemie, 134(27), e202203186. 影响因子（16.9）一区

6. Sheng, B., Xu, Z., Tan, S., Lan, P., Banwell, M. G., White, L. V. * Modelling Possible Biogenetic Pathways to the Isomeric Pyrano[2,3-g]indole and Pyrano[3,2-f]indole Cores of Certain Prenylated Indole Alkaloids Using Gold(I)-Catalyzed Intramolecular Hydroarylation Reactions J. Org. Chem, 2025, 90, 3140–3154. 影响因子（3.6）二区

Research Interests

Lorenzo White eagerly pursues the total synthesis of natural products and the development of new, radical-based synthetic methodologies.

Contact

Room 403, Biomedical Experiment Building, Jinan University, Zhuhai

Email: lorenzo.white1917@jnu.edu.cn