Professor Xiaoliang Sunney Xie 
Contact
eMail:

xie@chemistry.harvard.edu

Post:

Harvard University
 

12 Oxford Street

 

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

 

Cambridge, MA 02138

 

 

Phone:

617-496-9925

Fax:

617-496-8709

URL:

http://bernstein.harvard.edu

 

Education

1990

Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California at San Diego with Prof. John D. Simon

1984

B.S. Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China
Professional Appointments

2009 -

Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

1999 -

Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
1992 - 1998 Senior Research Scientist to Chief Scientist, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

1990 - 1992

Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ. of Chicago with Prof. Graham R. Fleming
Honors
2008 Fellow of the American Physical Society
2008 Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis for Laser Technology
2008 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2007 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics
2006 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2006 Fellow of Biophysical Society

2004

NIH Director's Pioneer Award Recipient

2003

Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences, Israel

2003

Co-recipient of Hoope's Prize for Joe Markson's Outstanding Harvard undergraduate thesis

1996

Coblentz Award, Coblentz Society
Named Lectureships
2008 Lawrence Bragg Lecture, Cambridge University, Cavendish Laboratory, UK
2008 Mueller Lecturer, Purdue University, West Lafayette
2008 Gordon Lecture, University of Washington, Seattle
2008 Leica Scientific Forum UK, Cambridge, Liverpool, Oxford, London
2008 Francis Clifford Phillips Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh
2007 Joseph Coleman Memorial Lecture, Yale University, New Haven
2007 Davidson Lecturer, University of Kansas, Lawrence
2007 Noyes Distinguished Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin
2007 Georges Smets Chair, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Université catholique de Louvain
2007 Chan Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley
2007 Dow Lecturer, University of British Columbia
2007 Powell Lecturer, University of Richmond
2006 Marker Lecturer, Pennsylvania State University
2006 Wang Ying-lai Memorial Lecturer, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
2005 Meyerhof Lecturer, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg

2005

PC Cross Lecturer, University of Washington

2004

Nieuwland Lecturer, University of Notre Dame

2003

Clarence Karcher Lecturer, University of Oklahoma

2002

Noyes Distinguished Lecturer, University of Rochester

2001

William Pyle Philips Distinguished Lecturer, Haverford College
Society Memberships

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Chemical Society

American Physical Society

Biophysical Society

Optical Society of America

Current Research Interests

Single molecule spectroscopy

Single molecule enzymology

Molecular interactions, conformational dynamics, and underlying mechanisms of macromolecule machines

Gene expression in living cells

Nonlinear optical imaging and biomedical applications

 
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