CV

Employments

o Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, 2016.12-present

o PostDoc with Prof. Yi Luo, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2015.5-2016.12

o PostDoc with Prof. Shaul Mukamel, Department of Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences, Universty of California, Irvine, USA, 2013.4-2015.4

o PostDoc with Prof. Yi Luo, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2011.5-2013.3


Education

o 2007-2011, PhD in Biotechnology (theoretical chemistry direction), Department of theoretical Chemistry, School of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Supervisor: Prof. Yi Luo

Thesis: Structure and spectroscopy of bio- and nano-materials from first-principles simulations.

o 2004-2010, PhD in Chemistry (theoretical chemistry direction), Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, China.

Supervisor: Prof. Shuhua Li

Thesis: Approximate methods for calculating ground-state electronic structure and properties of large molecules: methodological developments and applications.

o 2000-2004, B.S. in Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University.

In 2000-2002 also selected in School of Intensitive Instructions for Sciences and Arts (now named Kuang Yaming Hornors School) of the same university for intensive training in math and physics.

Undergraduate thesis: Monte Carlo simulations of polymer configurations in dilute solution (supervised by Profs. Shuhua Li and Jing Ma)

o 1997-2000, Rudong High School, Jiangsu, China


Research Grants

2018.1-2021.12, National NSF of China, 11774174

2018.1-2020.12, National NSF of China, 21703105

2017.7-2020.6, NSF of Jiangsu Province of China, BK20170833

2017-2020, Shuangchuang program of Jiangsu Province of China.

2017.1-2018.12, Start-up grant of Nanjing university of Science and Technology, China

2016-2019 Research grant "Dynamics of x-ray-matter interaction with free-electron laser applications" from Swedish Research Council (2015-04510), co-PI.

2012 Research grant for individual researchers ``First-Principles Simulation of L-edge XAS of Fe(II) Spin Crossover Complexes'' from Lars Hierta memorial foundation (Stiftelsen Lars Hiertas Minne), Sweden (FO2012-1039).