General

Prof. Dr. Xinwen MA

Institute of Modern Physics (IMP)

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, P. R. China

Email: x.ma@impcas.ac.cn,

Tel: +86-931-4969346


http://amdimp.impcas.ac.cn/

http://APEX.impcas.ac.cn/

Research Areas and interests

Research fields: Experimental Atomic Physics, Ultra-fast Collision Dynamics, Precision Spectroscopy

Current Interests:    Many-particle ultrafast dynamics in collisions of heavy ions/ electrons/ photons with atoms / molecules/ clusters; Physics in strong Coulomb fields; Laser spectroscopy with ions, spectroscopy of highly charged ions; Experimental development: Many-particle momentum imaging techniques (COLTRIMS, Reaction Microscopes).

Education

07.1990: University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China, B.S. in Experimental nuclear and Particle Physics

07. 1998: Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Ph.D. in Physics

1998-2000: Postdoc, Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Darmstadt, Germany


Experience

Since 2019.09:  Head of Atomic Physics Center, IMP

2011.04-2019.10  Director Assistant of IMP, CAS

Since 2004:          Professor in Physics, leader of atomic physics group, IMP, CAS, Lanzhou

Since 2007           Visiting GSI, MPI-K, CNRS frequently

2006.10-2006.11:     Visiting scientist, LASIM at Lyon University 1 and CNRS, Lyon, France

2006.09-2006.10:      Visiting scientist, Max-Planck Institute für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany

Since 2006.09.     Guest Professor, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

2004.10-2004.11:      Visiting scientist, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany; CNRS, Lyon France

Since 2004.09-    Guest Professor, Northwest Normal University (NWNU), China

2002.02-2002.05:       Guest Professor, National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), Nagoya, Japan

Since 2003.06:     Professor in physics, leader of atomic physics, IMP, CAS

2001.05-2001.07:       Visiting scientist, in Atomic physics group, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

2001.05-2003.06:       Professor in physics, leader of atomic physics, IMP, CAS

2001.01-2001.05:       Professor, vice leader of Heavy Ion Application Department I, IMP, CAS

Since 2001.01:     Professor in Physics, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, awarded with ‘the CAS Hundred Talents Program’

1996.04-1998.06:       Vice leader of heavy ion application department, IMP, CAS

1990.07-1998.06:      Junior researcher, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences


Honors & Distinctions

Helmholtz EMMI Professorship, 2018

Scientific and Technology award of Gansu Province, 2013

UCAS Excellent Supervisor, 2012

CAS Hundred Talents Program award, 2000


Supervised more than 25 graduate students, 2 postdocs.

 

Publications

More than 170 publications in refereed journals, 2 conference proceedings, more than 60 presentations at international and national conferences, schools, seminars and colloquia.

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http://APEX.impcas.ac.cn/

Research Interests

Many-particle ultrafast dynamics in collisions of heavy ions /electron /photons with atoms / molecules/ clusters; physics in strong Coulomb fields; laser spectroscopy with ions, spectroscopy of highly charged ions; Experimental development: Many-particle momentum imaging techniques (COLTRIMS, Reaction Microscopes).

Visit the wenpage:

http://amdimp.impcas.ac.cn/

http://APEX.impcas.ac.cn/

Committees and Services

Vice Chair of Scientific Committee of Institute of Modern Physics CAS, since 2019.02;

Member of Scientific Committee of State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, since 2016.09

Vice head of the Scintillator-Array System for the Chinese satellite project of the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) since 2012;

Member of Committee of Atomic and Molecular Physics in China, since 2011

Member of Advisory Committee of Swift Heavy Ion interaction with Matter (SHIM), since 2010

Member of Advisory Committee of 20th -25rd International Symposium on Atomic Collisions (ISIAC, 2007-2019);

Member of Advisory Committee of International Conference on atomic physics with Highly Charged Ions (HCI, 2006-2018);

Member of executive committee of 27th - 29th International Conference on Photonic, Electronic, Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC);

Member of Committee of SPARC and ILIMA of Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (FAIR);

Member of Scientific Committee of the Atomic and Molecular Physics Laboratory of Northwest Normal University, since 2009

Member of International Advisory Committee of Trapped Charged Particles (TCP) Conference, since 2015

Guest Professor in Northwest Normal University, since 2005

Guest Professor in University of Science and Technology of China, since 2006.06

Member of Scientific Committee of Institute of Modern Physics CAS, since 2001;

Member of Scientific Committee of National Laboratory of Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou, since 2001

Chair of Imaging Techniques Applied in Atomic and Molecular Physics, 2016.07

Chair of Mini-workshop on Atomic Physics at HIAF, 2016.08

Co-Chair of International Conference of Atomic Collisions in Solids (ICACS27), 2016

Co-chair of International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC2013), 2013

Chair of China-German Symposium on Laser cooling, 2013, Lanzhou

Co-Chair of 23rd International Symposium on Ion Atom Collisions (ISIAC), July 2013

Chair of Workshop on Frontiers in Relativistic Atomic Physics and Applications in Plasma and Nuclear Sciences, Oct. 2012

Chair of 7th Stored Particles Atomic Physics Research Collaboration Symposium, Aug. 2010

Chair of Imaging Techniques Applied in Atomic and Molecular Physics, 2006.08

Co-Chair of the 12th Chinese National Atomic and Molecular Physics Conference, 2004.07

The referee of: Nucl. Instr. and Meth. Phys. Res. Sect. B, J. Phys. B, Phys. Scripta, Rev. Sci. Instr., J. Chem. Phys.

Member of editorial board of Nuclear Physics Review

Member of editorial board of Matter and Radiation at Extremes

Member of editorial board of Nuclear Techniques

Research Projects

Precision Spectroscopy and Collision Dynamics of Highly Charged Ions”, Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China, 43.45 Mi RMB, 2017-2022

International cooperation projects High Precision Dielectronic Recombination Spectroscopy at Heavy Ion Storage Rings”supported by National Natural Scientific Foundation of China (NSFC), 2.65 Mi RMB, 2016-2020

New Generation Frequency Standards with a precision beyond E-18Supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3.6 Mi RMB, 2016-2020

Preparation Experiments for Searching the Nuclear Transition of 229mTh in Optical Range Using Resonant Electron-Recombination Spectroscopy” supported by NSFC, 1.05 Mi RMB, 2014-2016

Helmholtz-CAS Joint Research Group, 0.9 Mi RMB, 2012-2015