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Xijie Wang

Professorship:

Ultrafast Electron Diffraction, since 1 December 2023

Department:

  • Physics
  • Joint Professorship at the Research Academy Ruhr (RAR) with the University of Duisburg Essen (Faculty of Physics)
  • RAR Research Center Chemical Sciences and Sustainability (CSaS)

Studies and doctorate:

  • 1992: Doctorate in Physics at UCLA, California, USA
  • 1982: Bachelor of Science in Physics at the Shaanxi Normal University, China
picture of a man © Andreas Reichert

Stages:

  • 2013-2023: Senior Researcher at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, California, USA
  • 1993-2013: Head of Development and Operations of the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) and the Source Development Laboratory (SDL) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), New York, USA

Focus in research:

  • Ultrafast Electron Diffraction
  • Quantum materials
  • Materials under extreme conditions
  • Fundamental chemical processes in gas and liquid phases