Personal Profile
Associate Professor (2012–present) and Doctoral Advisor at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School. He holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Peking University (2000), an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University (2004), a Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry from Brown University (2007), and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley (2007–2012). He has published 21 academic papers, including one article in Science. In 2007, he received the Potter Prize for Best Thesis in Chemistry and the Sigma Xi Award for Outstanding Research from Brown University, and was elected an Associate Member of the Sigma Xi Society. He is also a member of the American Chemical Society.
Research Focus
(1) Artificial design and computational modeling of novel materials; molecular-level design and development of new materials, including high-efficiency solar cells.
(2) Non-adiabatic dynamics in complex systems; charge transfer and energy transport; quantum coherence; reaction dynamics and quantum control.
(3) Development of new energy materials; molecular-scale theories for efficient energy conversion, storage, and transport; lithium-ion power batteries.
(4) Non-equilibrium statistical theory in condensed matter systems; many-body problems; enhanced sampling methods; molecular modeling of non-equilibrium dissipation.
Publications
1． Guohua Tao, Electronically Nonadiabatic Dynamics in Singlet Fission: A Quasi-Classical Trajectory Simulation,J. Phys. Chem. C118(31), 17299-17305, 2014.View
2． Guohua Tao, Electronically Non-Adiabatic Dynamics in Complex Molecular Systems: An Efficient and Accurate Semiclassical Solution,J. Phys. Chem. A117(28), 5821-5825, 2013. View
3．Feng Pan andGuohua Tao*, Importance sampling including path correlation in semiclassical initial value representation calculations for time correlation functions,J. Chem. Phys.,138, 091101, 2013.View
4．Guohua Tao and William H. Miller, Semiclassical Description of Electronic Excitation Population Transfer in a Model Photosynthetic System,J. Phys. Chem. Lett.1, 891 (2010).View
5．Amy C. Moskun, Askat E. Jailaubekov, Stephen E. Bradforth, Guohua Tao and Richard M. Stratt, Rotational Coherence and a Sudden Breakdown in Linear Response Seen in Room-Temperature Liquids,Science,311, 1907 (2006).View
