Yujia Tao, G5

BS, University of California, Berkeley, 2017
ytao [at] caltech.edu

Yujia was born in Hangzhou, China. She attended UC Berkeley; double majoring in chemistry and geology. She worked in the lab of Prof. Tom Maimone on developing an oxygen stitching strategy to access small terpenoids and collaborating on the synthesis of thapsigargin. After rocking her BS, Yujia decided to travel down the West Coast to continue her work in natural product total synthesis. When she's not in lab, Yujia enjoys eating, sleeping, and dreaming about food. If you can't find her in lab, she's most likely in line at Chipotle.