Dr. Yang Xueming, Chair Professor, Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, is currently Director of Chemical Science Division, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Vice President of the Chinese Chemical Society. Prof. Yang is a worldly renown scholar in physical chemistry. He was supported by the distinguished young scholars’ program of NSFC and was selected to the “Ten Thousand Talents Program” in China. His research works have been selected into “China's top 10 scientific and technological progress news" twice and "China's top 10 scientific progress" once. He has won National Natural Science Award (2nd Prize) twice, Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation, Yangtze Scholar Achievement Award, Tan Kah Kee Science Award, Broida Award, Humboldt Research Award, National Innovation Competition Award, etc. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics and an Associate editor of the CCS Chemistry. He has led more than 20 major science and technology projects. He is the project leader for China's first free electron laser user facility - the only free electron laser facility operating in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength region in the world. Prof. Yang has published over 440 research papers, including 15 on Science and one on Nature. He has trained a number of outstanding doctoral students, including seven awardees of the Special Presidential Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Sciences and one winner of Top 100 National Doctoral Dissertations in China.

Education:

• Sept. 1978 – July 1982, B.S., Physics, Zhejiang Normal University;

• Jan. 1986 - Aug. 1991, Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA;

• Aug. 1982 - Jan. 1986, M.S., Chemical Physics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Work Experience:

• Sept. 1991 - Apr. 1993, Postdoctoral Researcher of Department of Chemistry, Princeton University;

• May 1993 - Nov. 1995, Postdoctoral Researcher of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California;

• Dec. 1995 - Aug. 2000, Research Associate of Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Chinese Taipei;

• July 2000 - Jan. 2001, Visiting Research Fellow of JILA, University of Colorado;

• Aug. 2000 - Dec. 2003, Tenured Research Fellow of Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Chinese Taipei; 

• Sept. 2001, Research Fellow of Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences;

• Oct. 2001 - April 2015, Director of State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, PRC;

• April 2012 - March 2017, Deputy Director of Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences;

• April 2015 - April 2018, Chair, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology;

• Nov. 2017, Dean of College of Science & Chair Professor in Chemistry, SUSTech;

• April 2018, Director, Chemical Science Division, National Natural Science Foundation of China;

• Sept. 2021, Acting Vice President, Dean of College of Science, Chair Professor in Chemistry, SUSTech;

• Oct. 2023, Acting Vice President,  Chair Professor in Chemistry, SUSTech.