Lecture: Surface Photocatalysis of Methanol and Water

Lecturer: Prof. YANG Xueming, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Time: 15:00 PM

Date: June 24

Place: Academic hall, 1st Floor, Lihua Building

Introduction of Prof. YANG Xueming:

Education:

1991 Ph. D. in Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

“Spectroscopy and Collisional Dynamics of Highly Vibrationally Excited Molecules” (Prof. A. M. Wodtke)

1985 M. Sc. in Chemical Physics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics,

Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

“High Resolution Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules” (Prof. Qingshi Zhu, and Prof. Cunhao Zhang)

1982 B. Sc. in Physics, Zhejiang Normal University, Zhejiang, China

Professional Experience

Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China, 2003-present

Fellow and Director, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China, 9/2001-present

Fellow, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 8/2000-4/2004.

JILA Visiting Fellow, JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 7/2000-1/2001.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 8/1/1999-7/2003.

Associate Fellow, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 12/1995-8/2000.

Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories and Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, California, USA, 5/93-11/95 (Advisor: Prof. Yuan T. Lee).

Post Doctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, 9/91-5/93 (Advisor: Prof. Giacinto Scoles).

Research Interests

Kinetics and dynamics of complicated systems.

Multiple channel dynamics of unimolecular photodissociation and bimolecular reactions using universal crossed experimental techniques based on electron impact ionization and VUV (synchrotron & laser based) photoionization.

State-to-state dynamics of unimolecular and bimolecular reactions

Molecular photochemistry.

Electron dynamics at surfaces and interfaces

Photocatalysis

Look forward to your participation!