University of Illinois at Chicago
E-mail: nan_jiang @ avs.org

NAN JIANG is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science (Beijing, China). He was also a joint Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (Stuttgart, Germany). Following a postdoc at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), he joined the faculty of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Chicago in 2015. Jiang’s research focuses on applying ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) scanning probe-based nanotechnology in surface-supported nanostructures design and properties investigation. He recently developed a hybrid technique by combining UHV scanning probe microscopy with optical spectroscopy to understand and predict surface chemistry at the angstrom scale.

Nan is the author of over 60 publications, including Science, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters, ACS Nano. He received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award and American Vacuum Society Prairie Chapter Early Career Researcher Award in 2020. In 2022, he was awarded the American Chemical Society Richard P. Van Duyne Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry. His students have received many awards from American Vacuum Society, including 2021 Russell and Sigurd Varian Award, 2020 Morton M. Traum Surface Science Student Award, 2019 Nanometer-scale Science and Technology Division Graduate Student Award, and 2023 AVS National Student Award Finalist. For significant advances in sub-nm spatially resolved Raman spectroscopy of adsorbed molecules and low-dimensional materials, he has been named a Fellow of AVS in 2023.