MO Fanyang was born in Liaoyang city of Liaoning Province in 1982. He obtained his undergraduate degree and master degree in applied chemistry in 2004 and 2006 at Beijing Institute of Technology under the supervision of Professor Zhiming Zhou. He then moved to Peking University where he studied the synthetic applications of diazo compounds and aryldiazonium salts transformations under the supervision of Professor Jianbo Wang. After receiving his PhD in 2010, he went to the US and worked with Professor Qinghai Zhang at The Scripps Research Institute and Professor Guangbin Dong at The University of Texas at Austin from 2010 to 2015. He joined Peking University as an Assistant Professor in April 2015.