Professor Xi Ling selected to receive a University Provost’s Career Development Professorship
Please join us in congratulating Professor Xi Ling (Chemistry, MSE) who has been selected to receive a University Provost’s Career Development Professorship.
This award is given to a a junior faculty member who shows exceptional promise, and is particularly focused on advancing the participation and success of women in the area of Life Sciences. This is a three-year award with funding to support research and scholarly expense.
Xi Ling’s multidisciplinary research in nanoscience works to synthesize new two-dimensional nanomaterials, reveal their physical nature through spectroscopy, and ultimately develop them into novel, high-performance, flexible devices for use in energy conversion and chemical sensing. She holds a doctorate in physical chemistry from Peking University and bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering from Lanzhou University in China. She completed her postdoctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.