Jun Yang

Before joining HKU as Assistant Professor, Jun was postdoc and later lecturer in the department of chemistry at Princeton University, where he worked on many-body quantum chemistry methods with high predictive power with Prof. Garnet Chan. Before moving to USA, Jun spent five years in Germany for its long tradition of excellence in quantum chemistry, where he pursued his deep interests in electronic structure theory. He earned Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry with honor at University of Cologne with Prof. Michael Dolg under a graduate fellowship of German Science Foundation (DFG). Following graduation, Jun received DFG research fellowship to join the Priority Program "Modern and Universal First-principles Methods for Many-electron Systems in Chemistry and Physics" with Prof. Christof Hättig at Ruhr University Bochum. Jun has BSc./MSc. at Peking University.

Teaching Area:

• Statistical thermodynamics and kinetics theory
• Mathematics in Chemistry
• Computational Chemistry

Research Interests:

• Quantum chemistry
• Electronic structure theory
• Ab-initio simulation and modelling
• Computational materials

Current Research:

• New non-adiabatic electronic structure theory
• Low-scaling excited state computational methods and applications
• Fast ab-initio algorithms for molecular dynamics simulation
• Unified computational strategy for studying singlet fission materials.