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
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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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).
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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-18” Supported 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