Research Position

• PostDoc in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Material Science, USA

  • Advisor: Lin-wang Wang

  • Date: Dec/2016 to now

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Education

• Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Chemistry Department, USA

  • Advisor: Andrew M. Rappe

  • Thesis: First-principles studies of solar cell materials: absorption, carrier lifetime and non-linear optical effect

  • Date: Sept. 2010 to Dec. 2016

• B.S. University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China

  • Major: Chemical Physics

  • Date: Sept. 2006 ~ Jul. 2010

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Research Interests

• Computional materials modeling

• Carrier dynamics, hot carrier’s cooling, electron-phonon coupling

• Hybrid halide perovskite, large polaron

• Light-matter interaction / photovoltaic mechanism and engineering

• Material design with novel functionality based on first-principles method

• Electrochemistry, catalysis

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PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• Programing: C, Fortran, Matlab, MPI, OpenMP, Python

• Computational Modeling: Quantum mechanics, Molecular dynamics, Monte-Carlo simulation

• Software: Abinit, Elk, FHI-AIMS, GAMESS, Gromacs, Quantum Espresso, Wannier90

• System Administrator: Maintaining one computation cluster, one file server and ~20 desktops

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Teaching

• Teaching Assistant for General Chemistry Lab in University of Pennsylvania (Sept. 2010 ~ May 2011)

• Mentor 3 graduate students and 3 undergraduate students

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Publications

See Publications and Google Scholar

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