The research groups of Prof. Tengteng Chen from HKUST, Prof. Zhongming Sun (Recipient of the Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Natural Science Foundation of China), and Prof. Mingfei Zhou (Recipient of the Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Natural Science Foundation of China) from Fudan University plan to jointly recruit 1-2 postdoctoral fellows and 1-2 research assistants in the field of femtosecond ultrafast spectroscopy for studying the structures of condensed-phase metal clusters and their related dynamic properties.
Interested candidates are requested to send their resumes to the designated email addresses as soon as possible, and then they will be notified for interviews.
I. Application Requirements
1. Postdoctoral candidates should hold a Ph.D. degree in physics, chemistry, or related fields. Research assistants should have at least a bachelor's degree.
2. Candidates with a background in ultrafast spectroscopy will be given priority.
3. Candidates with a background in inorganic or organic synthesis and scientific instrument design will also be considered.
4. Candidates should have strong scientific research capabilities, a high sense of responsibility, and a spirit of teamwork.
5. Candidates should have good political qualities and moral cultivation, with proper behavior and compliance with laws and regulations.
II. Job Responsibilities
1. Participate in the synthesis and development of condensed - phase main - group metal clusters and the characterization of their dynamic properties.
2. Participate in the development of functional materials based on condensed - phase rare - earth complexes and the study of photocatalytic mechanisms.
III. Remuneration and Benefits
During the employment period, the personnel management, salary, insurance, and welfare benefits will be implemented in accordance with the relevant regulations of Fudan University. When applicants conduct exchanges at the Department of Chemistry, HKUST, their salary, insurance, and welfare benefits will be implemented in accordance with the relevant regulations of HKUST.
IV. Application Materials Personal resume, including educational background, research work overview, list of published papers and works, and awards received.
V. Contact Information
Please send emails to the contact persons:
Prof. Wang: gjwang@fudan.edu.cn
Prof. Chen: tengtengchen@ust.hk
Research group homepages:
VI. Experimental Conditions
The laboratory in the Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, is equipped with a complete femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy system (HARPIA, Light Conversion, Figure 1).
Another femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy system (Helios, Ultrafast System, Figure 2) is installed in the Department of Chemistry, HKUST.
At the same time, a steady - state and transient two - dimensional infrared spectroscopy testing system (2DQuick Transient, PHASETECH, Figure 3) is also available.
These advanced devices are mainly used to study the excitation evolution process and structural information of samples on the sub-femtosecond to picosecond scale, providing high-time-resolution and high-precision spectral data for this project. The synthesis of condensed-phase clusters will receive full support from the research group of Prof. Zhongming Sun.
Zhongming Sun
Prof. Sun graduated from Wuhan University in July 2001 with a bachelor's degree and obtained a Ph.D. from the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences in July 2006. Subsequently, he conducted postdoctoral research at Washington State University/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and North Dakota State University in the United States. He served as the leader of the Rare-Earth Coordination Chemistry/Materials Chemistry Research Group and a Ph.D. supervisor at the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry from 2010-2018. Since 2018, Prof. Sun has been a professor and Ph.D. supervisor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nankai University. During the postgraduate and postdoctoral periods, Prof. Zhongming Sun mainly engaged in research on high-temperature inorganic solid chemistry, functional coordination compounds, Zintl clusters, metal-organic catalysis, and their mechanisms. Currently, his research group mainly uses coordination chemistry to study the synthesis of negatively charged all - metal clusters and the study of metal - metal bond interactions. Prof. Zhongming Sun has won the "Young Pioneer" award of the Changchun Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has received funding as the Excellent Young Scholar and Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has also been selected as a leading talent in Tianjin.
Mingfei Zhou
Prof. Zhou graduated from Fudan University with a bachelor's degree in 1990 and obtained a Ph.D. from Fudan University in 1995. After graduation, he remained at the same university to teach. He conducted postdoctoral research at the Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, USA from 1997-1999. He was promoted to professor in 2000. He received funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China as Distinguished Young Scholar in 2001 and he was appointed as a Changjiang Chair Professor in 2002. Currently, he is a professor and the dean of the Department of Chemistry, Fudan University. Prof. Mingfei Zhou mainly engages in research on molecular spectroscopy and chemical bonds. He has published more than 320 papers in academic journals such as Science, Nature, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Journal of the American Chemical Society. As the first-completer, he won the First Prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award in 2007 and the Second Prize of National Natural Science Award in 2018. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2019 and a Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society in 2020.
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