Fan Xie
Professor
University of Science and Technology of China
Anhui, Hefei, Huangshan road 433, 230027
Email:
xiefan@ustc.edu.cn
Research Interests
- elucidating elementary chemical processes at the single-molecule level
- achieving quantum control of molecular rotational states
Developing high-precision microwave spectroscopic methods to measure high-resolution molecular rotational spectra, with the aims of:
Education
| Ph.D. | 2016-2021 | University of Alberta, Physical Chemistry |
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| B.S. | 2012-2016 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Material Science |
Working experience
| 2026 - today | Professor | University of Science and Technology of China |
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| 2025 – 2026 | Scientist | University of Science and Technology of China |
| 2021 – 2025 | Post-doc | Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) |
Awards and Honors
| 2022 | Humboldt Research Fellowship |
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| 2021 | Doctoral Dissertation Award, University of Alberta |
Selected Publications
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Structural and Electronic Evolution of Ethanolamine upon Microhydration: Insights from Hyperfine Resolved Rotational Spectroscopy
Fan Xie, Marco Mendolicchio, Wafaa Omarouayache, S. Indira Murugachandran, Juncheng Lei, Qian Gou, M. Eugenia Sanz, Vincenzo Barone, Melanie Schnell
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 63(40), e202408622 (2024) -
Electric nuclear quadrupole coupling reveals dissociation of HCl with a few water molecules
Fan Xie, Denis S. Tikhonov, and Melanie Schnell
Science 384, 6703, 1435-1440 (2024) -
Hydrogen‐Atom Tunneling in a Homochiral Environment
Xie, Fan, Wenhao Sun, Beppo Hartwig, Daniel A. Obenchain, and Melanie Schnell
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 62(37), e202308273 (2023) -
Discovering the elusive global minimum in a ternary chiral cluster: Rotational spectra of propylene oxide trimer
Xie, Fan, Marco Fusè, Arsh S. Hazrah, Wolfgang Jäger, Vincenzo Barone, and Yunjie Xu
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59, 22427-22430 (2020)