Semiclassical Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics: Theory and Simulation with and Without Classical Trajectories

Chaoyuan Zhu obtained his first doctorate from Institute of Nuclear Research Academia Sinica in China in 1990 and his second doctorate from Institute for Molecular Science in Japan in 1993. He was at Institute for Molecular Science, Japan, as an assistant professor from 1993 to 2002. He spent about three years at University of Minnesota, USA, from 2002 to 2005. Then, he joined the faculty at Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, in the fall of 2005 and has become the full professor since 2011. He has been working on development theoretical chemistry method and simulation for excited-state molecular dynamics and spectroscopy, and his current interests are focusing on simple and accurate semiclassical treatments for nonoadiabatic interference, nonoadiabatic coherence/decohernce, and nonoadiabatic tunneling quantum effects and its applications to photochemical dynamics and spectroscopy involving complex bio-molecule and material systems.

趙元取得了他的第一個博士學位，於1990年在中國的中央研究院核能研究所獲得，並於1993年在日本分子科學研究所獲得第二個博士學位。他於1993年至2002年在日本分子科學研究所擔任助理教授。從2002年到2005年，他在美國明尼蘇達大學工作了約三年。隨後，他於2005年秋季加入國立交通大學應用化學系的教職，並自2011年起成為正教授。他一直致力於發展理論化學方法和激發態分子動力學及光譜學的模擬，目前的研究興趣集中在非絕熱干涉、非絕熱相干/去相干以及非絕熱隧道量子效應的簡單而準確的半經典處理，並應用於涉及複雜生物分子和材料系統的光化學動力學和光譜學。