His main research interest is in the area of surface dynamics using surface sum frequency generation (SFG) and ultrafast time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, and surface catalysis mechanism under real conditions using SFG.
Zefeng Ren obtained his B.S. degree in University of Science and Technology of China in 2004 and his Ph. D in chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Xueming Yang in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2009. After postdoctoral works with Prof. Martin Wolf in Fritz Haber Institute of Max Planck Society in Berlin, he became an associate professor in Peking University in 2011. Since 2016, he moved back to DICP as full professor and vice director of State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics.
2013 NSF of China Excellent Young Scientists Foundation
2010 Humboldt Fellowship
2011 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of CAS
2008 National Natural Science Award (2nd class)
1. Liu, S.; Liu, A.-a.; Wen, B.; Zhang, R.; Zhou, C.; Liu, L.-M.; Ren, Z.* Coverage Dependence of Methanol Dissociation on TiO2(110). J. Phys. Chem. L 2015, 6, 3327-3334.
2. Feng, R.-r.; Liu, A.-a.; Liu, S.; Shi, J.; Zhang, R.; Ren, Z. In Situ Studies on the Dissociation and Photocatalytic Reactions of CH3OH on TiO2 Thin Film by Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. C 2015, 119, 9798-9804.
3. Zhou, C.; Ma, Z.; Ren, Z.*; Mao, X.; Dai, D.; Yang, X.* Effect of defects on photocatalytic dissociation of methanol on TiO2(110). Chem. Sci. 2011, 2, 1980-1983.
4. Ren, Z.; Che, L.; Qiu, M.; Wang, X.; Dong, W.; Dai, D.; Wang, X.; Yang, X.; Sun, Z.; Fu, B.; Lee, S.-Y.; Xu, X.; Zhang, D. Probing the resonance potential in the F atom reaction with hydrogen deuteride with spectroscopic accuracy. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2008, 105, 12662-12666.
5. Che, L.; Ren, Z.; Wang, X.; Dong, W.; Dai, D.; Wang, X.; Zhang, D.; Yang, X.; Sheng, L.; Li, G.; Werner, H.-J.; Lique, F.; Alexander, M. H. Breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in the F+o-D2 ? DF+D reaction. Science 2007, 317, 1061-1064. (*Equal Contribution)
6. Qiu, M.*; Ren, Z.*; Che, L.; Dai, D.; Harich, S. A.; Wang, X.; Yang, X.; Xu, C.; Xie, D.; Gustafsson, M.; Skodje, R. T.; Sun, Z.; Zhang, D. Observation of Feshbach resonances in the F+H2 ? HF+H reaction. Science 2006, 311, 1440-1443. (*Equal Contribution)