9/1999 - 7/2004, Ph. D. in Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

Dissertation: Properties of Novel Materials from First Principles

Supervisor: Prof. Jinlong Yang

9/1995 - 7/1999, Bachelor of Science in Physics

Special Class for the Gifted Young, USTC

2012.06 - present, professor at Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and Department of Chemical Physics, USTC.

2007.09 - 2012.06, associate professor at Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, USTC.

2006.10 - 2007.09, postdoctoral research associate at Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine, working with Prof. Shaul Mukamel.

Circular dichroism (CD) and two dimensional ultraviolet (2DUV) spectroscopy for protein and polypeptide.

2004.10 - 2006.09, postdoctoral research associate at Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland at College Park, working with Prof. Daniel Kosov.

Methodology and application of electron transport in molecular electronics.

2000.09 - 2004.09, research assistant in Laboratory of Bond Selective Chemistry, USTC.

First-principles and tight-binding study of material properties. System administrator of the lab computational facilities.

Mechanisms of Chemical Reactions and Physical Processes

Theoretical Design and Computational Characterization of Functional Materials

Modeling of Quantum Transportation in Molecular Electronics

Density Functional Theory and Related Numerical Methods

Electronic Spectroscopy Simulation for Protein

15' Young Chemist Award, Chinese Chemical Society

15' Outstanding Graduate Student Supervisor Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences

14' Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize (Major Contributor), Chinese Academy of Sciences

12' Tang Au-Chin Youth Award on Theoretical Chemistry, Chinese Chemical Society

11' LU Jiaxi Youth Talent Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences

10' Young Faculty Career Award, USTC Alumni Foundation

08' New Century Excellent Talents in Universities, Ministry of Education, China (NCET-08-0521)

06' National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation, China

04' The 1st prize of the 7th Graduate Student Academic Conference, USTC

02' Qiu Shi Graduate Student Scholarship, USTC

Peer Review：NFSC | NPG (Nature Nanotech., Sci. Rep.) | ACS (J. Am. Chem. Soc., Nano Lett., ACS Nano, J. Phys. Chem.) | APS (Phys. Rev. B) | RSC (Nanoscale, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., J. Mater. Chem.) | Wiley (Adv. Func. Mater., ChemPhysChem) | AIP (J. Appl. Phys.) | IOP (J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, Nanotechnology) | Elsevier (Chem. Phys. Lett., Chem. Phys.) | World Scientific (J. Theo. Comput. Chem.)

Associate Editor of Frontiers in Materials, Editorial Advisory Board member of Graphene and 2D Materials