1996年7月本科毕业于南京大学环境科学与工程系；1999年7月硕士毕业于上海有机化学研究所；

2002年7月毕业于美国麻省大学Dartmouth分校, 获理学硕士学位；

2002年9月至2007年9月就读于美国耶鲁大学，获哲学博士学位；

2007年10月至2010年3月于美国伊利诺伊斯大学香槟分校化学系从事博士后研究；

2010年4月至今，中国科学院上海有机化学研究所研究员。

迄今为止，已在Chemical Review、Journal of the American Chemical Society、Angew Chem Int Ed 等杂志发表十余篇文章，引用数超过350次。

11.Cruso, M. M.; Davis, D. A.; Shen, Q.; Odom, S. A.; Sottos, N. R.; White, S. W.; Moore, J. F. “Mechanically-Induced Chemical Changes in Polymeric Materials” Chem. Rev. 2009, 109, 5755-5798.

10. Wiggins, K. M.; Hudnall, T. W.; Shen, Q.; Kryger, M. J.; Moore, J. S.; Bielawski, C. W. "Mechanical Reconfiguration of Stereoisomers," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 3256-3257.

9.Shen, Q.; Hartwig, J. F. “[(CyPF-^tBu)PdCl₂]: An Air-Stable, One-Component, Highly Efficient Catalyst for Amination of Heteroaryl and Aryl Halides” Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 4109-4112.

8.Shen, Q.; Ogata, T.; Hartwig, J. F.  “Highly Reactive, General and Long-Lived Catalysts for Palladium-Catalyzed Amination of Heteroaryl and Aryl Chlorides, Bromides, and Iodides: Scope and Structure–Activity Relationships” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 6586-6596. (This paper was highlighted in Synfacts, 2008, 8, 859 as Synfact of the month.)

7.Shen, Q.; Hartwig, J. F.  “Lewis Acid Acceleration of C-N Bond-Forming Reductive Elimination from Heteroaryl Palladium Complexes and Catalytic Amidation of Heteroaryl Bromides” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 7734-7735.

6.Shen, Q.; Hartwig, J. F. “Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling of Ammonia and Lithium Amide with Aryl Halides” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 10028-10029. (This publication was listed as one of the most-accessed communications in J. Am. Chem. Soc. for the July-September 2006 period. This paper was also featured in C&E News, 2006, 84, 32. In addition, this paper was highlighted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 3402-3404.)

5.Fernández-Rodríguez, M. A.; Shen, Q.; Hartwig, J. F. “Highly Efficient and Functional- Group-Tolerant Catalysts for the Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling of Aryl Chlorides with Thiols” Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, 7582-7596.

4.Fernández-Rodríguez, M. A.; Shen, Q.; Hartwig, J. F. “A General and Long-Lived Catalyst for the Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling of Aryl Halides with Thiols” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 2180-2181.

3.Shen, Q.; Shekhar, S.; Stambuli, J. P.; Hartwig, J. F. “Highly Reactive, General, and Long-Lived Catalysts for Coupling Heteroaryl and Aryl Chlorides with Primary Nitrogen Nucleophiles”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 1371-1375.

2.Shen Q.; Hammond, G. B. “Regiospecific Synthesis of Bicyclo- and Hetero bicyclo-gem-Difluorocyclobutenes Using Functionalized Fluoroallenes and a Novel Mo-Catalyzed Intramolecular [2 + 2] Cycloaddition Reaction” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 6534-6535.

1.Shen Q.; Hammond, G. B. “Highly Efficient Synthesis of 1,1-Difluoro- 2-substituted- 1,3-dienes and Dienynes from gem-Difluorohomoallenyl Bromide via Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reaction” Org. Lett. 2001, 3, 2213-2215.