Personal Data

Date & Place of Birth9th March, 1984, Shaanxi, China

Education

• Jun. 2011:  Ph.D. in Chemistry.
  Supervisor: Prof. Song Gao. Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China.
  Dissertation title: Design, Syntheses and Magnetic Properties of Rare Earth Single-Ion Magnets (Won one hundred outstanding national doctoral dissertations)

• Jun. 2006:  B.S. in Chemistry. Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China.

Professional Positions

• Sep. 2020 – present Professor of Chemistry, Spin-X Institute, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, P. R. China

• Nov. 2015 – Aug. 2020 Research Scientist in Inorganic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, P. R. China

• Sep. 2014 – Aug. 2015¬  Postdoctor, LNCMI-CNRS, Grenoble, France(Grenoble)

• Sep. 2011 – Aug. 2014  Humboldt Fellow, 1. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, Germany

Memberships and Activities

• 2016-2021Member of national committee of China Association of Science and Technology

• 2007-2011President of Student Association of Science and Technology of Peking University.

• 2007-2010Vice president of Youth Federation of Peking University.

Honors and Awards

• 2023 The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

• 2022 International Award for Creative Work, Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry

• 2022 RIGAKU-ACCC Rising Star Award, the 8th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry

• 2021 Xu Yuanzhi Electronic paramagnetic Resonance Development Award Fund Outstanding Youth Award

• 2018 National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars

• 2016 Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program

• 2013 Humboldt Research Fellow

• 2013 Outstanding Ph.D. thesis Award of China

• 2012 Outstanding Ph.D. thesis Award of Beijing

• Outstanding Ph.D. thesis Award of Peking University

Research Interests

• quantum coherent manipulation in magnetic molecules, molecular magnetism, EPR spectroscopy

Selected Publications

1. Meng, Y.-S.; Jiang, S.-D.*; Wang, B.-W.*; Gao, S.*, Understanding the Magnetic Anisotropy toward Single-Ion Magnets. Accounts of Chemical Research 2016, 49 (11), 2381-2389.

2. Jiang, S.-D.; Wang, B.-W.*; Su, G.; Wang, Z.-M.; Gao, S.*, A Mononuclear Dysprosium Complex Featuring Single-Molecule-Magnet Behavior. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 2010, 49 (41), 7448-7451.

3. Jiang, S.-D.; Wang, B.-W.*; Sun, H.-L.; Wang, Z.-M.; Gao, S.*, An Organometallic Single-Ion Magnet. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2011, 133 (13), 4730-4733

4. Jiang, S.-D.; Maganas, D.; Levesanos, N.; Ferentinos, E.; Haas, S.; Thirunavukkuarasu, K.; Krzystek, J.; Dressel, M.; Bogani, L.*; Neese, F.*; Kyritsis, P.*, Direct Observation of Very Large Zero-Field Splitting in a Tetrahedral (NiSe4)-Se-II Coordination Complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015, 137 (40), 12923-12928.

5. Gao, C.; Genoni, A.; Gao, S.; Jiang, S.-D.*; Soncini, A.*; Overgaard, J.*, Observation of the asphericity of 4 f-electron density and its relation to the magnetic anisotropy axis in single-molecule magnets. Nature Chemistry 2020, 12 (2), 213-219.

6. Hu, Z.; Dong, B.-W.; Liu, Z.; Liu, J.-J.; Yu, C.; Xiong, J.; Shi, D.-E.; Wang, Y.; Wang, B.-W.; Ardayan, A.; Shi, Z.*; Jiang, S.-D.*; Gao, S.*, Endohedral Metallofullerene as Molecular High Spin Qubit: Diverse Rabi Cycles in Gd2@C79N. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2018, 140 (3), 1123-1130.

7. Liu, Z.; Wang, Y.-X.; Fang, Y.-H.; Qin, S.-X.; Wang, Z.-M.; Jiang, S.-D.*; Gao, S., Electric field manipulation enhanced by strong spin-orbit coupling: promoting rare-earth ions as qubits. National Science Review 2020, 7 (10), 1557-1563.

8. Wang, Y.-X.; Liu, Z.; Fang, Y.-H.; Zhou, S.*; Jiang, S.-D.*; Gao, S., Coherent manipulation and quantum phase interference in a fullerene-based electron triplet molecular qutrit. npj Quantum Information 2021, 7 (1), 32.

9. Zhou, S.; Yuan, J.; Wang, Z.-Y.; Ling, K.; Fu, P.-X.; Fang, Y.-H.; Wang, Y.-X.; Liu, Z.; Porfyrakis, K.*; Briggs, A.; Gao, S.; Jiang, S.-D.*, Implementation of Quantum Level Addressability and Geometric Phase Manipulation in Aligned Endohedral Fullerene Qudits. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2022, 61 (8), e202115263.

10. Fang, Y.-H.; Liu, Z.; Zhou, S.; Fu, P.-X.; Wang, Y.-X.; Wang, Z.-Y.; Wang, Z.-M.; Gao, S.; Jiang, S.-D.*, Spin-Electric Coupling with Anisotropy-Induced Vanishment and Enhancement in Molecular Ferroelectrics. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022, 144 (19), 8605-8612.