Professor Ding Kuiling has been the President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University since February 2023. Previously, as SJTU's Executive Vice President for five years, he was responsible for overseeing the university's academic affairs.

Prior to joining SJTU, Professor Ding held a number of senior positions in academia, including the role of Director at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), and the role of Vice President at Shangha iTech University.

As a chemist and an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he has received numerous prestigious awards, including the National Natural Science Award (Second Class), the Eli Lilly Scientific Excellence Award, the Yoshida Prize, and the Humboldt Prize. In addition, he serves as an editor of more than ten international chemistry journals.

Professor Ding holds a PhD in Chemistry from Nanjing University. His research interests include asymmetric catalysis and green chemistry based on organometallics. Notably, he pioneered and successfully implemented the combinatorial approach in the discovery of novel chiral catalyst systems. Furthermore, he is credited with developing the self-supporting strategy for chiral catalyst immobilization.