Prof. Dr. Chong Fang

Prof. Dr. Chong Fang is currently Professor of Chemistry at Oregon State University. Dr. Fang earned his Ph.D. with Prof. Robin Hochstrasser from the University of Pennsylvania (2006) and performed his postdoctoral research with Prof. Richard Mathies at UC Berkeley (2007–2010) on the wild-type GFP fluorescence mechanism. Earlier, Dr. Fang obtained dual B.S. in Chemical Physics and Applied Computer Science from USTC (1996–2001). Since 2010, the Fang Group at Oregon State has developed state-of-the-art ultrafast spectroscopic toolsets including tunable femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) and broadband up-converted multicolor arrays (BUMA) to capture “molecular movies”, and have elucidated the structure-function relationships of molecular systems ranging from biosensors, photoacids, batteries to metal-organic complexes. His notable accolades include the NSF CAREER Award (2015–2021), the inaugural 2015 Robin Hochstrasser International Young Investigator Award (Elsevier and Chemical Physics), the 2016 OSU Promising Scholar Award and the Milton Harris Faculty Teaching Award, the 2019 OSU Impact Award for Outstanding Scholarship, and the 2021 College of Science Milton Harris Award in Basic Research.