Yi Qin Gao, Cheung Kong Professor

Honors and Awards

2016 Pople Medal (Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical & Computational Chemists)
2015 Young scientific and technological innovation leader (Ministry of Science and Technology of China)
2014 Promising Scientist Prize of CMOA
2014 Keynote lecture Award, Chemical Society of Japan
2012 Leader of Innovative Research Team in University (Ministry of Education of China)
2011 NSFC Outstanding Young Investigator Award
2008 Cheung Kong Professor (Ministry of Education of China)
2006 Searle Scholar
2004 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award
2001 Milton and Francis Clauser Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis, Caltech
2001 Herbert Newby McCoy Award

Employment

2001-2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology
2002-2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University
2005-2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University
2010-present Cheung Kong Professor, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
2013-present Principal Investigator, BIOPIC, Peking University
2015-2019 Dean, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
2019-present Principal Investigator, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory

Services

Member of Finance Committee, IUPAC Vice General Secretary and Board Member, Chinese Chemical Society
Chair, Committee on Biophysical Chemistry, Chinese Chemical Society
Member, Steering Committee of Theoretical Chemistry, Chinese Chemical Society
Member, Steering Committee of Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Chinese Physics Society
Member, Steering Committee of Chinese Protein Society

Editorial/Advisory board member

Acta Chimica Sinica
Interdisciplinary Sciences
ACS Central Science
Chemistry of Materials
Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica
Journal of Chemical Physics
Journal of Physical Chemistry
Chemical Physics Letters