• BSc, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China

• Master degree student, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China

• Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Columbia University

• PostDoc, DuPont Marshall laboratory & Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania

• Professor, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• Chief Scientist, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of US Department of Energy

• Professor, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University

• Professor, School of Science, Westlake University

Wang's research interests include the structure and reaction dynamics of surface and interface, linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy and modern analytical spectroscopy. He is mostly known for his "seminal contributions to the development of surface nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy and to the understanding of molecular interaction and structure at interfaces". His most cited paper so far is a systematic survey on the "Quantitative spectral and orientational analysis in surface sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy (SFG-VS)". In recent years, he developed the sub wavenumber high resolution broadband SFG-VS and demonstrated its ability for obtaining intrinsic and accurate spectral lineshape in SFG-VS and other nonlinear spectroscopic techniques, such as the Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy (FSRS).

ResearchID: https://publons.com/researcher/2844928/hongfei-wang/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F4GiZbwAAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID：https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8238-1641

1. Xiao-hua Hu, FengWei, Hui Wang, Hong-fei Wang*.a-Quartz Crystal as Absolute Intensity and Phase Standard in Sum-Frequency Generation Vibrational SpectroscopyJ. Phys. Chem. C., 123, 15071-15086, 2019.

2. Aashish Tuladhar, Zizwe A. Chase, Marcel D. Baer*, Benjamin A. Legg, Jinhui Tao, Shuai Zhang, Austin D. Winkelman, Zheming Wang, Christopher J. Mundy, James J. De Yoreo*, and Hong-fei Wang*. Direct Observation of the Orientational Anisotropy of Buried Hydroxyl Groups inside Muscovite Mica,J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 2135-2142, 2019.

3. Paul E. Ohno, Sarah A. Saslow, Hong-fei Wang, Franz M. Geiger*, and Kenneth B. Eisenthal. Phase-referenced Nonlinear Spectroscopy of thea-Quartz/Water Interface,Nature Comm., 7, 13587, 2016.

4. Hong-fei Wang*. Sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy (SFG-VS) for complex molecular surfaces and interfaces: spectral lineshape measurement and analysis plus some controversial issues,Prog. Surf. Sci., 91, 155-182, 2016.

5. Hong-fei Wang*, Luis Velarde, Wei Gan, Li Fu. Quantitative Sum-Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy of Molecular Surfaces and Interfaces: Lineshape, Polarization, and Orientation,Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem., 66, 189-216, 2015.

6. Ran-Ran Feng, Yuan Guo, and Hong-Fei Wang*. Reorientation of the “free OH” group in the top-most layer of air/water interface of sodium fluoride aqueous solution probed with sum-frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy,J. Chem. Phys., 141, 18C507, 2014.

7. Luis Velarde, Hongfei Wang*. Unified treatment and measurement of the spectral resolution and temporal effects in frequency-resolved sum-frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy (SFG-VS),Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 15, 19970-19984, 2013.

8. Luis Velarde, Xianyi Zhang, Zhou Lu, Alan Joly, Zheming Wang, and Hong-fei Wang*. Spectroscopic phase and lineshapes in high-resolution broadband sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy: Resolving interfacial inhomogeneities of `identical' molecular groups,J. Chem. Phys., 135, 241102, 2011.

9. Wei Gan, Dan Wu, Zhen Zhang, Ran-ran Feng, and Hong-fei Wang*. Polarization and experimental configuration analyses of sum frequency generation vibrational spectra, structure, and orientational motion of the air/water interface,J. Chem. Phys., 124, 114705, 2006.

10. Hong-fei Wang*, Wei Gan, Rong Lu, Yi Rao, Bao-hua Wu. Quantitative spectral and orientational analysis in surface Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy (SFG-VS),Int. Rev. Phy. Chem., 24, 191-256, 2005.

Selected honors and awards

Wang was selected to the Hundred Talent Program, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999; Then in 2004, Wang was awarded the Distinguished Young Scholar of the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC). He was elected Fellow of American Physical Society (APS Fellow) in 2012.

Contact Information and Open Positions

Professor Wang Hongfei's research group plans to carry out long-term research on modern physical chemistry and chemical physics related to the ultrafast and nonlinear spectra of surfaces, interfaces and condensed phases and kinetics, including but not limited to: (1) physical chemistry of surfaces and interfaces; structure, interaction and chemical kinetics; (2) Spectroscopy and molecular reaction kinetics: vibration and electron spectroscopy; (3) linear and nonlinear and spectroscopy and modern spectral analysis methods: infrared, Raman and harmony spectroscopy; (4) Chirality and stereochemistry on surfaces and biofilms. At present, the research group recruits outstanding talents in the above research directions as postdoctoral fellows, researchers, associate researchers, assistant researchers, technical engineers, and research assistants. Please contact wanghongfei@westlake.edu.cn, if you are interested in joining us.