Dr. Jinggang Lan is a Professor at the Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology. In 2023, he was awarded the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Overseas) by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and recognized as a Category B Talent under the Shenzhen “Peacock Plan.” His research focuses on multiscale simulation methods, integrating density functional theory, second-order Møller–Plesset perturbation theory (MP2), first-principles molecular dynamics, path-integral molecular dynamics, and machine learning to uncover the microscopic mechanisms underlying complex systems.

Education Background:

2016–2020: Ph.D., University of Zurich, Switzerland

2014–2016: Master’s Degree, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

2009–2013: Bachelor’s Degree, East China University of Science and Technology, China

Professional Experience:

2024–Present: Professor, Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology

2023–2024: Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University, USA

2021–2023: Postdoctoral Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland

2020–2021: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Zurich, Switzerland

International Impact:

He has published in high-impact journals such as Nature Communications, PNAS, JACS, Angewandte Chemie, and Chemical Science, with a total citation count exceeding 1,000. He has delivered over 10 oral presentations at international conferences and serves as a reviewer for leading journals, including Nature Catalysis, Nature Communications, and Science Advances.

Awards and Honors:

1.20252024 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad，10，000 USD

2.2023 Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Fellowship, 764,856 CHF

3.2023 Simons Foundation Fellowship, 285,000 USD

4.2014 Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, 44,000 EUR

Representative Publications

1.Jinggang Lan*, Majed Chergui, and Alfredo Pasquarello. Dynamics of the charge transfer to solvent process in aqueous iodide. Nature Communications, 15(1):2544, 2024

2.Jinggang Lan*, Vladimir V. Rybkin, and Alfredo Pasquarello. Temperature Dependent Properties of the Aqueous Electron. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, page e202209398, 2022

3.Jinggang Lan*, Yo-ichi Yamamoto, Toshinori Suzuki*, and Vladimir V. Rybkin*. Shallow and deep trap states of solvated electrons in methanol and their formation, electronic excitation, and relaxation dynamics. Chemical Science, 13(13):3837–3844, 2022

4.Jinggang Lan*, Venkat Kapil, Piero Gasparotto, Michele Ceriotti, Marcella Iannuzzi, and Vladimir V Rybkin*. Simulating the ghost: quantum dynamics of the solvated electron. Nature Communications, 12(1):1–6, 2021.

5.Feng Shao*, Jun Kit Wong, Qi Hang Low, Marcella Iannuzzi, Jingguo Li*, and Jinggang Lan*. In Situ Spectroelectrochemical Probing of CO Redox Landscape on Copper Single-Crystal Surfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(29):e2118166119, 2022

6. Jinggang Lan*, Vladimir V Rybkin, and Marcella Iannuzzi*. Ionization of water as an effect of quantum delocalization at aqueous electrode interfaces. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11(9):3724–3730, 2020

Ongoing Projects

National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Science Fund Project: Study on Nuclear Quantum Effects at Metal-Water Interfaces, RMB 300,000, 2024–2026.

Computational chemistry, first-principles molecular dynamics, development and application of machine learning methods in complex systems.