Prof. Wolfgang Jaeger and Prof. Yunjie Xu from the University of Albert, Canada, visited Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM) at the invitation of the State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry on December 30, 2013. During their stay, Prof. Jaeger delivered a seminar report entitled “Spectroscopic Studies of Doped Helium Clusters and Helium Droplets”, and Prof. Yunjie Xu “Recent vibrational CD developments: chirality transfer, solvation, and transition metal complexes”, and carried out detailed discussion with the research staff of FJIRSM.

Prof. Wolfgang Jaeger gained his PhD from the University of Kiel, Germany (1989). He worked as a full-time professor at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Albert since 2003. His current research interests include the study of intermolecular interactions using spectroscopic and theoretical computational tools. His research group untilizes the method of helium nanodroplet spectroscopy to isolate, stabilized, and characterize transient species and to study barrier-less or low-barrier chemical reactions. Prof. Jäger has got many awards including Humboldt Research Award, Germany in 2009, Morino Lecture Award, Japan in 2011 and International Dr. Barbara Metz-Stark Prize, Germany in 2012.

Prof. Yunjie Xu graduated from Xiamen U. with a B.Sc. in Chemistry and a supplementary B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics. After receiving her Ph.D. from UBC with M.C.L. Gerry in 1993, she accepted an NRC Research Associate Fellowship to work with A.R.W. McKellar and T. Amano on IR spectra of weakly bound clusters and ions in Ottawa. She started as an assistant professor at the U. of Alberta in 2003 and quickly rose to a full professor in 2010. Her research focuses on developing new spectroscopic strategies to characterize chirality and chiral recognition. Her group uses high resolution IR laser and microwave spectroscopy, IR multiphoton dissociation spectroscopy, vibrational circular dichroism and Raman optical activity, as well as matrix isolation spectroscopy to study chirality recognition processes and chirality transfer phenomena in the gas phase, in solution and at metal nanoparticles. She has published over 100 refereed research articles in leading scientific journals including Science, Angew. Chem., J. Am. Chem. Soc., and Phys. Rev. Lett.