This is a Spin Chemistry and Smart Chemistry Workgroup from Shengchun Wang (王盛淳). This is where Shengchun mainly updates his latest articles and ideas.
About Shengchun Wang (schun@whu.edu.cn)
Work experience as Postdoc
- Oct. 2024 to now, Peng Liu group
- Oct. 2023 to Oct. 2024, Tim Cernak group
- Jul. 2021 to Oct. 2023, Aiwen Lei group
Education
- Sep. 2016 to Jun. 2021, Wuhan University, Ph.D., Aiwen Lei
- Sep. 2012 to Jun. 2016, Hunan University, B.S.
Story about Shengchun
Shengchun was born into a loving family in a remote, verdant town in Hunan Province, China. His journey in chemistry began in 2012, when he was fortunate to be admitted to Hunan University as an undergraduate student. In 2016, he continued his studies as a Ph.D. student at Wuhan University and was even more fortunate to join Professor Aiwen Lei’s group. During his doctoral training, Shengchun developed a strong interest in understanding how chemical reactions occur. He learned to use operando spectroscopic techniques such as EPR and XAFS to probe reaction mechanisms and capture information about reactive intermediates.
After receiving his Ph.D. in 2021, Shengchun began to reflect on the next stage of his scientific journey. He was particularly interested in the future of reaction-intermediate research and the question of what new tools could be developed to understand fleeting chemical species. While waiting for his doctoral work to be published, he closely followed the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. By 2022, this inspired him to think about how AI could be combined with chemistry to accelerate mechanistic analysis, reaction discovery, and experimental decision-making.
To pursue this direction, Shengchun joined Professor Tim Cernak’s group in 2023, where he gained experience in high-throughput experimentation, AI-assisted experimental design, and rapid reaction exploration. This experience helped him appreciate the power of data-driven chemistry. At the same time, he realized that many important reactive intermediates remain difficult or even impossible to characterize directly. To better model these complex systems and strengthen his understanding of chemical reactivity, Shengchun later joined Professor Peng Liu’s group to receive advanced training in computational chemistry and physical organic chemistry.
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