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SEPT 2024 Congratulations to Prof. Wei Xiong for being the finalist for the highly prestigious 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists! 🎊🎉
MAY 2024 Congratulations to Prof. Wei Xiong for being selected as one of the eight recipients of the highly prestigious 2024 National Brown Investigator Award! 🎉🎊
APR 2024 Congratulations to Prof. Wei Xiong to be elected as the 2023 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow!
APR 2024 Congratulations to Vicente Galicia for winning the NSF GRFP Award!
FEB 2023 Welcome Prof. Dr. Bin Yang and Fangao Zhang to join the group!
JAN 2023 Congratulations to Vicente Galicia for winning 2022-2023 Physical Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Award for Excellence!
AUG 2023 Congratulations to former postdoctoral fellow Dr. Chang Yan on receiving the ACS PHYS Young Investigator Award!
AUG 2023 Congratulations to Zimo Yang on receiving the 2022 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad!
AUG 2023 Wei’s interview for 2023 Coblentz Award by John Chasse was published in Spectroscopy!!
SEP 2023 Congratulations to Zimo Yang on receiving the Physical Chemistry Experimental and Theory Graduate Student Award!
DEC 2022 Congratulations to Dr. Zishan Wu for landing a fantastic new job in industry. We wish you the best for your future endeavor.
DEC 2022 Prof. Wei Xiong gave an invited talk at DARPA FUTURE conference at UC San Diego.
NOV 2022 Congratulations to Dr. Jackson C. Wagner for his successful defense and earning his Ph.D. degree!
NOV 2022 Congratulations to Dr. Tengteng Chen, Zimo Yang and Dr. Matt Du for their paper in Science.
OCT 2022 Prof. Wei Xiong gave invited seminars at Univerisity of Washington, and University of California, Irvine.
SEP 2022 Prof. Wei Xiong gave a keynote talk at the OMQ (Optical Molecular & Quantum Science) symposium at University of Oregon.
SEP 2022 Dr. Zishan Wu presented a poster at The XXVII International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy .
SEP 2022 Welcome Qiufan Shi joining the group!
AUG 2022 Prof. Wei Xiong gave an invited talk at ICSEC in Burlington, Vermont
AUG 2022 Dr. Tengteng Chen, Chang Yan, Zimo Yang, Jackson Wagner presented poster at GRC Vibrational Spectroscopy.
AUG 2022 A research team led by Prof. Xiong was awarded a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) from DoD.
JUL 2022 Prof. Wei Xiong presented an invited talk at TSRC workshop on 2D IR spectroscopy, and invited talk at GRC Molecular Dynamics and Interactions.
JUL 2022 The Xiong group had a fun kayak day on Mission Bay!
JUN 2022 Prof. Wei Xiong gave a keynote talk at International conference of Coherent MultiiDmensional Spectroscopy (CMDS) at Austin, TX.
JUN 2022 Prof. Wei Xiong organized a departmental award event to celebrate students and postdocts achievments.
JUN 2022 Prof. Wei Xiong presented his group research at TRSC Interface spectroscopy workshop.
MAY 2022 Prof. Wei Xiong presented at AFOSR Molecular Dynamics and Theoretical Chemistry Program review meeting.
APR 2022 Prof. Wei Xiong gave an invited semianr at Utah State University
MAR 2022 Prof. Wei Xiong gave an Editor’s Choice talk at APS National Meeting in Chicago
SEP 2021: Welcome undergraduates Vicente Galicia and Nicole Muir to join the group!
AUG 2021: Our article “Molecular vibrational polariton: Its dynamics and potentials in novel chemistry and quantum technology” has been featured on the cover of Journal of Chemical Physics.
JAN 2021: Dr. Zishan Wu and Dr. Mason Valentine join this lab. Welcome!
NOV 2020: Congratulation to Bo on his fantastic thesis defence and earning of his Ph.D degree!
NOV 2020: Wenfan passed his candidacy exam. Congratulations!
SEP 2020: Our research is supported by NIH(NIGMS): Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA)(R35)!
JUN 2020: Jackson passed his candidacy exam. Congratulations!
JUN 2020: Dr. Tengteng Chen joins this lab. Welcome!
MAY 2020: Congratulations on getting your work published in Science, Bo!
APR 2020: Wei’s tenure promotion has been approved by UCSD. Congrats!
MAR 2020: Zimo’s work has been published in ACS Photonics. Congratulations!
FEB 2020: Wei is awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
FEB 2020: Jackson presents his work at PCSD in San Diego.
JAN 2020: Anjali joins the group. Welcome!
SEP 2019: Weichen Wei, Garret Weishan, and Wei Yang join the group as graduate and undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
SEP 2019: Bo’s work has been accepted by Science Advances. Congrats!
AUG 2019: Congratulations to Jiaxi on her successful thesis defense!
AUG 2019: Congratulate Haoyuan on earning the second place prize in the best poster award at FemtoChem conference in Shanghai
AUG 2019: Jackson and Bo successfully give presentations at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego.
JUL 2019: Congratulations to Yingmin on his successful thesis defense!
JUN 2019: Yingmin’s work has been published in JCP. Bo and Haoyuan’s work has been accepted by JPCA and JPCB. Congrats!
JUN 2019: Our undergraduates Liying, Haotian, and Chaoqi graduated! Congratulations to them!
JUN 2019: Welcome Stacy and Chenglai to the group!
MAR 2019: Yingmin’s most recent work has been accepted in JCP, as apart of the special topic issue Nonlinear Spectroscopy and Interfaces. Congrats!
MAR 2019: Wei received the 2019 ACS JPC/PHYS Lectureship award. He will present an award lecture at the 2019 ACS National Meeting in San Diego. Congratulations Wei!
JAN 2019: Welcome Victoria Barber to join the group for a postgraduate internship.
DEC 2018: Our undergraduates Brian and Qiting graduated! Congratulations to them!
NOV 2018: Wei is awarded by NSF CAREER award, congratulations to Wei!
OCT 2018: Yingmin presented his most recent work in MRS Boston
AUG 2018: Bo passed his candidacy exam. Congrats!
AUG 2018: Wei and Bo attended Gordon conference of Vibrational Spectroscopy, where Wei gave an invited talk and Bo presented a poster on his research.
JUL 2018: A collaboration project between Paesani and Xiong groups on studying interfacial charge transfer is funded by NSF!
JUL 2018: Wei and Prof. Lu Wang organized the first Telluride workshop on Advances of Multidimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy in Water, Biology and Materials Science
JUN 2018: Wei presented his group research at the 9th international coherent multidimensional spectroscopy (CMDS) conference in Seoul, Korea
JUN 2018: Welcome our undergraduate students Haotian Chen and Qiting Wu to join the group!
JUN 2018: Wei presented an invited research talk at Telluride Nonlinear Optics at interfaces workshop
MAY 2018: Wei presented an invited talk at 10+10 symposium at Peking University
MAY 2018: Wei presented an invited talk at Sloan workshop of Indoor surface chemistry
APR 2018: The Xiong group receives Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) award from AFOSR!
APR 2018: Haoyuan passed his PhD candidacy exam, congrats to Haoyuan!
MAR 2018: Wei give an invited talk at 2018 National ACS Meeting at New Orleans, LA.
MAR 2018: Bo’s paper on 2D IR of Vibrational Polariton is accepted by PNAS. Congrats to Bo!
MAR 2018: Wei gave an invited talk at 2018 NSYSU-UCSD Bilateral Research Symposium.
MAR 2018: Bo presented his research as a talk at 2018 APS March Meeting at LA.
JAN 2018: Jiaxi presented her research in an oral presentation at Pacific Conference of Spectroscopy and Dynamics 2018, at San Diego. Yingmin, Haoyuan and Bo presented posters on their researches.
OCT 2017: Bo receives Roger Tsien Graduate Fellowship from Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry! Congrats to Bo!
OCT 2017: Bo and Yingmin’s paper is accepted by Science Advances! Congrats to Bo and Yingmin!
JUN 2017: Haoyuan’s paper is accepted by ACS Photonics! Congrats to Haoyuan!
MAY 2017: Jiaxi and Yingmin have passed their PhD candidancy exam. Congratulate to Yingmin and Jiaxi!
APR 2017: Prof. Xiong received the prestigious 2017 DARPA Director’s Fellowship, Congratulate to Wei!
APR 2017: Dr. Daoling Huang joins our lab and Prof. Continetti’s lab. Welcome Daoling!
MAR 2017: Haoyuan has passed his second year exam. Congratulate to Haoyuan!
OCT 2016: Prof. Xiong received 2016 AFOSR Young Investigator Program award. Congrats to Wei!
AUG 2016: Zhiguo and Jiaxi’s paper “Solving the Magic Angle Challenge in Determining Molecular Orientation Heterogeneity at Interfaces” is published by JPCC! Congrats to Zhiguo and jiaxi!
DEC 2015: Yingmin’s paper “Probing Electronic Strucutres of Organic Semiconductors at Buried Interfaces by Electronic Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy” published by JPCC! Congrats to Yingmin!
NOV 2015: Dr. Zhiguo Li joined the group from University of Alberta. Welcome Zhiguo!
NOV 2015: The first publication from our group “Short-Range Catalyst-Surface Interactions Revealed by Heterodyne Two-Dimensional Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy” is accepted and published by JPCL! Congrats to Jiaxi!
APR 2015: Dr. Sridhar Lahankar joined us as an Asstitant Project Scientist. Welcome Sridhar!
APR 2015: Yingmin’s paper “Characterizing interstate vibrational coherent dynamics of surface adsorbed catalysts by fourth-order 3D SFG spectroscopy” is published by Chem. Phys. Lett, as a Frontier Article and featured as cover!, Congrats to Yingmin!
JAN 2015: Prof. Xiong received 2015 DARPA Young Faculty Award. Congrats to Wei! Welcome Jiaxi and Yingmin to join the group