Wei Xiong

Wei Xiong is a professor and Kent Wilson Faculty Scholar in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC San Diego. His research focuses on developing ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopic and imaging tools to reveal molecular structures and dynamics of materials. Specifically, Xiong has been a pioneer in elucidating ultrafast energy transfer and dissipations of polaritonic chemical systems, developing hyperspectral nonlinear optical microscopy for biological imaging, and revealing femtosecond charge transfer dynamics at optoelectronic interfaces. He earned his BS in chemistry from Peking University, China, in 2006 and his PhD in 2011 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he developed novel two-dimensional vibrational spectroscopy techniques to study molecules on interfaces. From 2011 to 2014, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he helped to develop a tabletop XUV source for ultrafast measurements and time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of nanoparticles. He joined the faculty at UC San Diego in 2014. Xiong is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Coblentz Award, and the Journal of Physical Chemistry C Lectureship.