Yi Luo

Yi Luo is a Professor in Theoretical Chemistry at the School of Biotechnology, KTH. He currently acts as the Director of Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale administrated by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).  His research group focus on the theoretical modeling of molecular electronics, nano-photonics, X-ray spectroscopies and photocatalysis.  He has been collaborating with many leading experimental groups around the world.  Many research results are published in the most prestigious journals in related fields, such as Nature, Nature Series, PNAS, JACS, PRL and others. 

Yi Luo came to Sweden in 1989 and worked at the ESCA-LASER Laboratory of Nobel Laureate, Prof. Kai Siegbahn, at Uppsala University. Yi Luo received his PhD in computational physics at Linköping University in 1996. He was employed as an Assistant Professor in Stockholm University in 1997, then became an  Associated Professor in 2000 and a full Professor in 2005 at KTH. In 2010, he was awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize in Chemistry by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.