Personal Description
Positions
- 2006: Ameritas University Professor, and Willa Cather Ameritas Professor, UNL
- 2002-2006: Inaugural Willa Cather Professor, UNL
- 2001: Professor, UNL
- 1998 – 2001: Associate Professor, UNL
- 1993 – 1998: Assistant Professor, UNL
Education
- 1992 – 1993: UCLA, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow
- 1989 – 1992: University of Chicago, Postdoctoral Fellow
- 1989: The Ohio State University, Ph.D
- 1984: Physics, Peking University, BS (Selected for Graduate Study in US via National CUSPEA program)
Honors
- 67th ACS Midewest Award , July, 2011.
- University of Nebraska Outstanding Research & Creative Activity (ORCA) Award, April, 2010.
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected in October 2007.
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, elected by Division of Chemical Physics, November 2005.
- US & Canada J.S. Guggenheim Fellow, 2004
- SIGMA XI Outstanding Young Scientist Award (Nebraska Chapter), 2004
- Inaugural Willa Cather Professor (UNL), 2002
- Arts & Sciences Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Achievement (UNL), 2002.
- Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1999
Editorial Board
- Theoretical Chemistry Accounts 2006
- Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (JTCC) 2007
- Molecular Simulation 2008
Visiting Fellowship and Adjunct Professorship
- Adjunct Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, 2004
- Adjunct Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, 2002
- Ministry of Education Senior Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), 2001
- JSPS Fellowship, Okayama University (Japan), 1999
- NSF/CGP Fellowship, Kyoto University (Japan), 1994-1995