Chair Professor, Director
Key Laboratory of Precision and Intelligent Chemistry
University of Science and Technology of China
Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
Tel: +86-551-63600934, 63600306
Email: zyli@ustc.edu.cn
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
2023.06 - present, direct of Key Laboratory of Precision and Intelligent Chemistry, USTC.
2022.09 - present, chair professor at Department of Chemical Physics, USTC.
2018.03 - 2022.08, professor at Department of Chemical Physics, USTC.
2012.06 - 2018.03, professor at Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, 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
Quantum Algorithms for Chemistry
23' USTC Presidential Research Award
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