EDUCATION AND APPOINTMENT 12/2011 – present Professor, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) 02/2010 – 12/2011 Senior Research Associate, Chemistry Department, University of California, Irvine, US 02/2009 – 02/2010 Post-doctoral Fellow, Chemistry Department, University of California, Irvine, US 05/2008 – 02/2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Chemistry Department, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 12/2003 – 04/2007 Ph.D., Theoretical Chemistry Department, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 09/2000 – 05/2008 Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science 09/1996 – 07/2000 B.S., Department of Physics, Wuhan University, China