School of Humanities and Sciences
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Yan Xia
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPolymer Chemistry, Microporous Polymer Membranes, Responsive Polymers, Degradable Polymers, Polymers with Unique Mechanical Behaviors, Polymer Networks, Organic Electronic Materials
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Shicong Xie
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe coordination between cell growth and cell cycle in vivo.
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Wenzhe Yang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Physics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in the mysterious connections between physics and number theory, e.g. the applications of string theory to the studies of the arithmetic geometry of Calabi-Yau threefolds, and vice versa. My current researches focus on the interesting connections between mirror symmetry and mixed motives.
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Richard Zare
Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science and Professor, by courtesy, of Physics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research group is exploring a variety of topics that range from the basic understanding of chemical reaction dynamics to the nature of the chemical contents of single cells.
Under thermal conditions nature seems to hide the details of how elementary reactions occur through a series of averages over reagent velocity, internal energy, impact parameter, and orientation. To discover the effects of these variables on reactivity, it is necessary to carry out studies of chemical reactions far from equilibrium in which the states of the reactants are more sharply restricted and can be varied in a controlled manner. My research group is attempting to meet this tough experimental challenge through a number of laser techniques that prepare reactants in specific quantum states and probe the quantum state distributions of the resulting products. It is our belief that such state-to-state information gives the deepest insight into the forces that operate in the breaking of old bonds and the making of new ones.
Space does not permit a full description of these projects, and I earnestly invite correspondence. The following examples are representative:
The simplest of all neutral bimolecular reactions is the exchange reaction H H2 -> H2 H. We are studying this system and various isotopic cousins using a tunable UV laser pulse to photodissociate HBr (DBr) and hence create fast H (D) atoms of known translational energy in the presence of H2 and/or D2 and using a laser multiphoton ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer to detect the nascent molecular products in a quantum-state-specific manner by means of an imaging technique. It is expected that these product state distributions will provide a key test of the adequacy of various advanced theoretical schemes for modeling this reaction.
Analytical efforts involve the use of capillary zone electrophoresis, two-step laser desorption laser multiphoton ionization mass spectrometry, cavity ring-down spectroscopy, and Hadamard transform time-of-flight mass spectrometry. We believe these methods can revolutionize trace analysis, particularly of biomolecules in cells. -
Evgeny Zatulovskiy
Basic Life Research Scientist
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCell cycle and cell size control in animal cells
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Sha Zhang
Rsch Admstr 2, Physics
Current Role at StanfordAdministrative associate
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Bin Zhao
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biology
Biogenome engineering
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Jiacheng Zou
Ph.D. Student in Management Science and Engineering, admitted Summer 2018
Ph.D. Minor, StatisticsBioJiacheng is interested in leveraging modern statistical and computational OR tools to discover new insights into complex social sciences, economics and finance systems.
