Molecular-level structures of biological and polymer surfaces/interfaces; Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy; Bioengineering materials

We study surfaces/interfaces of biological systems/polymer materials using advanced nonlinear optical spectroscopy. We develop engineering materials via self-assembly starting from molecular design, radical reaction, and non-covalent interaction. We also expand the technique of nonlinear optical spectroscopy to complex surfaces/interfaces, for example materials in nano- or micron-scale. What we do aims at understanding and applying materials in different length scales, to satisfy our own curiosity and for the benifit of our society.

We are recruiting graduate students which pursue MPh and PhD degrees. Undergraduate students and people with Bachelor degree with biology, chemistry, physics, polymer, spectroscopy or materials are welcome. In case you have no science or engineering background, you are welcome to join us if you can prove you are smart enough.

We are also recruiting postdoctoral fellows with strong science and engineering backgrounds.

You will be working on developing advanced bioengineering materials, and exploring fundamental mechanisms behind surface-and-interfacial-related phenomena associated with biological events and polymer materials. In case you think our projects are not challenging and attractive, you can initiate your own project here if you can argue with and outperform me. Then you will be armed with techniques including nonlinear optical vibrational spectroscopy, Fluorescence Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope, PCR, and Zeta potential, etc.