Fan Xie

Professor

University of Science and Technology of China
Anhui, Hefei, Huangshan road 433, 230027
Email: xiefan@ustc.edu.cn

Fan Xie

Research Interests


    Developing high-precision microwave spectroscopic methods to measure high-resolution molecular rotational spectra, with the aims of:

  • elucidating elementary chemical processes at the single-molecule level
  • achieving quantum control of molecular rotational states

Education

Ph.D.2016-2021University of Alberta, Physical Chemistry
B.S.2012-2016Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Material Science

Working experience

2026 - todayProfessor University of Science and Technology of China
2025 – 2026Scientist University of Science and Technology of China
2021 – 2025Post-doc Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

Awards and Honors

2022Humboldt Research Fellowship
2021Doctoral Dissertation Award, University of Alberta

Selected Publications

  • 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)