Jie Yang received B. S. degree in physics from Nanjing University (2010, advisor: Prof. Shining Zhu) and Ph.D. degree in physics from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA (2016, advisor: Prof. Martin Centurion). He joined SLAC National Accelerator Laboratoy at Stanford as an Experimental Research Associate in Jun. 2016, and was later promoted to Associate Staff Scientist (Dec. 2018) and Staff Scientist (Jun. 2020). He joined Center for Basic Molecular Science (CBMS), Department at Chemistry at Tsinghua University in March 2021. He won the “Newcomer Award in Physical Organic Chemistry” in 2021. He won “The Key R&D Program of China” funding in 2021. He was awarded as an “Alibaba DAMO Academy Young Fellow” in 2022.

The main focus of his research group is to unveil the molecular dynamics in femtosecond and sub-Angstrom spatiotemporal scale, by developing advanced experimental techniques such as ultrafast electron diffraction, ultrafast spectroscopy, “molecular movie” etc.

Selected Publications

1. Jie Yang* , Riccardo Dettori, J. Pedro F. Nunes, Nanna H. List, Elisa Biasin, Martin Centurion, Zhijiang Chen, Amy A. Cordones, Daniel P. Deponte, Tony F. Heinz, Michael E. Kozina, Kathryn Ledbetter, Ming-Fu Lin, Aaron M. Lindenberg, Mianzhen Mo, Anders Nilsson, Xiaozhe Shen, Thomas J. A. Wolf, Davide Donadio*, Kelly J, Gaffney*, Todd J. Martinez*, Xijie Wang*, Direct observation of ultrafast hydrogen bond strengthening in liquid water, Nature, 2021, 596, 531-535.

2. Jie Yang*^#, Xiaolei Zhu^#, J Pedro F Nunes, K Yu Jimmy, Robert M Parrish, Thomas JA Wolf, Martin Centurion, Markus Gühr, Renkai Li, Yusong Liu, Bryan Moore, Mario Niebuhr, Suji Park, Xiaozhe Shen, Stephen Weathersby, Thomas Weinacht, Todd J Martinez*, Xijie Wang*, Simultaneous observation of nuclear and electronic dynamics by ultrafast electron diffraction, Science, 2020, 368, 885-889

3. Jie Yang*, Xiaolei Zhu, Thomas JA Wolf, Zheng Li, J Pedro F Nunes, Ryan Coffee, James P Cryan, Markus Gühr, Kareem Hegazy, Tony F Heinz, Keith Jobe, Renkai Li, Xiaozhe Shen, Theodore Veccione, Stephen Weathersby, Kyle J Wilkin, Charles Yoneda, Qiang Zheng, Todd J Martinez*, Martin Centurion*, Xijie Wang*, Imaging CF3I conical intersection and photodissociation dynamics with ultrafast electron diffraction Science, 2018, 361, 64-67