Dr. Yang Liu

Dr. Yang Liu is a postdoctoral researcher whose work focuses on machine-learning potential energy surfaces, nonadiabatic dynamics, quantum dynamics, and photochemistry.

Background

Yang received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry from Chongqing University under the supervision of Prof. Jun Li. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting student at the University of California, Irvine, working with Prof. Vladimir Mandelshtam. He then held postdoctoral positions at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics with Prof. Zhigang Sun and at the University of New Mexico with Prof. Hua Guo, where he worked on potential energy surfaces and reaction dynamics. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Göttingen with Prof. Reinhard Maurer. His research combines electronic structure calculations, machine-learning potential energy surfaces, surface hopping, and quantum dynamics methods to study nonadiabatic reactions and photodissociation dynamics.

Research Focus

Yang’s research focuses on electronic structure calculations, the development of adiabatic potential energy surfaces (PESs) and diabatic potential energy matrices (PEMs), and the study of nonadiabatic reactions and photodissociation dynamics using surface hopping and quantum dynamics methods.

Career

• 2026-present: Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Reinhard Maurer, University of Göttingen, Germany
• 2023-2026: Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Hua Guo, University of New Mexico, USA
• 2021-2022: Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Zhigang Sun, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• 2019-2020: Visiting Student with Prof. Vladimir Mandelshtam, University of California, Irvine, USA
• 2016-2021: Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry with Prof. Jun Li, Chongqing University, China
• 2012-2016: B.Sc. in Chemistry, Chongqing University of Technology, China

Publications

For a complete list of publications, please visit his Google Scholar profile.