Title:    Full-Model VCD and AI-Assisted Interpretation: Unveiling New Chiral Phenomena in Atomically Precise Metal Clusters and Flexible Salen Ligands and Their Metal Complexes

Time:     2025-05-16 15:00

Lecturer:  Yunjie Xu

University of Alberta

Venue:    Room 202, Lu-Jiaxi Building

Bio of Yunjie Xu：

Yunjie Xu earned her BSc in Chemistry and in Applied Mathematics from Xiamen University and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of British Columbia. She is a full professor at the University of Alberta and holds the Tier I Canada Research Chair in Chirality and Chirality Recognition. Xu’s research program focuses on chirality recognition, transfer, and amplification events in isolated molecular clusters, condensed phases, and at liquid-liquid interfaces. Her pioneering contributions include quantifying stereospecific non-covalent interactions and untangling chiral events under resonance conditions, thereby advancing our understanding of chiral forces and the light-matter interactions responsible for intricate chiral phenomena. She has received numerous awards and honors, including the 2019 Gerhard Herzberg Award from Canadian Society for Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy, the 2024 John C. Polanyi Award from Canadian Society for Chemistry, and 2024-2025 Killam Annual Professorship from the Killam Foundation. In 2018, she was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Science.