Vy Maria Dong

Vy Dong
Born
Vy Maria Dong

1976 (age 4849)
Alma materUniversity of California, Irvine B.S. (1998)
California Institute of Technology Ph.D. (2003)
Scientific career
FieldsOrganic chemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Irvine (2012-present)
University of Toronto (2006-2012)
University of California, Berkeley (2004-2006)
ThesisNovel Variants of the Zwitterionic Claisen Rearrangement and the Total Synthesis of Erythronolide B (2003)
Doctoral advisorDavid MacMillan
Other academic advisorsLarry E. Overman, Robert G. Bergman, Ken Raymond
Websitewww.chem.uci.edu/~dongv

Vy Maria Dong (born 1976 in Big Spring, Texas) is a Vietnamese-American Chancellor's Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Dong works on enantioselective catalysis and natural product synthesis. She received the Royal Society of Chemistry's Merck, Sharp & Dohme Award in 2020, the American Chemical Society's Elias James Corey Award in 2019, and the UCI's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2018.