Jinhui Zhong is Associate Professor ( Principal Investigator ) in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology. His research interest is the development and application of advanced spectroscopic methods with ultrahigh spatial and temporal resolution for the study of optoelectronic and catalytic materials, with an aim to understand the structure-function relationship at an atomic and molecular level and femtosecond time scale. His work has been published in journals including Nature Nanotech., Nature Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.，ACS Nano, Nano Lett., and Anal. Chem.

• Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, scanning near-field optical microscopy

•  Ultrafast two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy, pump-probe spectroscopy, and interferometric methods

•  Spatially and temporally resolved electronic, optical, and catalytic properties of functional materials

•  Nonlinear optics, Electrochemistry

 09/2010-06/2016 Ph.D, Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

 09/2006-06/2010 Bachelor of Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

 12/2022-Present Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the Southern University of Science and Technology, China

 02/2022-11/2022 Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the Southern University of Science and Technology, China

 02/2017-01/2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Institute of Physics, Germany

 07/2016-01/2017 Research Associate, Xiamen University, China

 Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Overseas), 2022

 Shenzhen Pengcheng Peacock Program - Special Appointment Position (Category C), 2023

 GMM-Preis 2020, Germany, 2021

 ACS Photonics Outstanding Young Scientist Award (15th Near-Field Optics Conference), 2018

 Carl von Ossietzky Young Researchers’ Fellowship, 2019

 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2017

1) J.-H. Zhong#, X. Jin#, L. Meng, X. Wang, H.-S. Su, Z.-L. Yang, C. T. Williams, B. Ren*. “Probing the electronic and catalytic properties of a bimetallic surface with 3 nm resolution.” Nature Nanotech., 2017, 12, 132-136.
https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2016.241

2) Hao He, Mao-feng Cao, Yun Gao, Peng Zheng, Sen Yan, Jin-Hui Zhong*, Lei Wang*, Da-yong Jin, Bin Ren*. “Noise learning of instruments for high-contrast, high-resolution and fast hyperspectral microscopy and nanoscopy.” Nature Communications, 2024, 15:754.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44864-5

3) Jin Yang, Shaokuan Gong, Xiaguang Zhang, Jianxun Liu, Wen Luo, Zhouguang Lu, Yanjun Liu, Xihan Chen, Christoph Lienau, Jin-Hui Zhong*. “Auger-Assisted Secondary Hot Carrier Transfer in a Type I MoS2 /PtSe2.” Adv. Funct. Mater., 2024, 2311730.
https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202311730

4) Kaizhen Liu, Yueyue Wei, Jiang Hu, Juyan Tian, Peng Sun, Guangjun Zhang, Niu Xu, Weiming Song, Jin Yang, Si-Ru Shao, Jing-Jing Guo, Hao He, Jun Yi, Wenxin Wang, Bowen Liu,* and Jin-Hui Zhong*. "Directional Control of Strong Coupling Enables Anisotropic Propagation of Molecular Exciton-Polaritons". ACS Nano 2026, 20, 12, 9711-9721 
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c17969

5) Zhanzhao Li#, Ziwei Xu#, Shaokuan Gong, Kaizhen Liu, Jin Yang, Xue Han, Niu Xu, Weiming Song, Xihan Chen, and Jin-Hui Zhong*. “Metal Nanoparticle Enhanced Molecular Triplet Generation for Singlet Oxygen Production and Antibacterial Application”. Nano Letters, 2025, 25, 51, 17844-17851
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c05126

Research ID: AHD-3018-2022