Personal Information
Hua GUO
Positions:
2015-present
: Distinguished Professor
2001-2015 : Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico
2010-present
: Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of New
Mexico
1998-2001 : Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico
1995-1998 : Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Toledo
1990-1995 : Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Toledo
1988-1990 : Postdoctoral Fellow (with Professor George C. Schatz), Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
1985-1988 : Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry (with Professor John N. Murrell, FRS), School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, Sussex, U.K.
1982-1985 : M.Sc. in Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
1978-1982
: B.Sc. in Chemistry Department of Basic Sciences, Chengdu Institute of
Electronic Engineering, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Membership:
Member, American Physical Society, since 1989
Member, American Chemical Society, since 1989
Fellow, American Physical Society, elected 2013
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of
Sciences, elected 2021
Professional Experience:
Overseas Research Student Award, Sussex University, U.K., 1986-1988
Visiting Research Student, University of Crete, Crete, Greece, 1988
Visiting Associate/Lecturer, California Institute of Technology, (Professor Ahmed Zewail) 1993
Dean's Merit Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Toledo, 1993
Dean's Merit Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Toledo, 1994
Dion D. Raftopolous Award for Outstanding Research, University of Toledo Chapter of Sigma Xi Society, 1995
Session Chairman, SPIE conference, San Diego, 1995
Outstanding Faculty Research Award, University of Toledo, 1996
Dean's Merit Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Toledo, 1996
Session Chairman, DMC Conference, Gull Lake, Minnesota, 1997
Advisory board, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University, China, since 2001
Editorial board, Journal of
Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, since 2002
Advisory board, Chinese American Chemistry Professor Association, since 2002
Symposium organizer, 225th national ACS meeting, New Orleans, 2003
Guest Editor, Special Issue of Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, 2003
Conference co-organizer, the 4th
Conference of Worldwide Young Chinese Chemists, 2004
Editorial board, Theoretical Chemistry
Accounts, since 2010
Anniversary Editor, Theoretical Chemistry
Accounts, 2011
Chair, Workshop on Quantum Reactive
Scattering, Santa Fe, 2011
Vice Chair, Conference on Dynamics of
Molecular Collisions, Snow Bird, 2011
Chair, Conference on Dynamics of Molecular
Collisions, Granlibakken, 2013
Visiting Lecturer of Chemical Research
Promotion Center, Taiwan, 2014
University of New Mexico College of Arts and
Sciences Teaching Excellence Award, 2014
Guest Editor, Special Collection for Prof. G.
Yan, Theoretical Chemistry
Accounts, 2014
Guest Editor, 50 Year of Chemical Reaction
Dynamics Special Issue of J. Phys. Chem. A, 2015
Director, Mesilla Chemistry Workshop, since
2015
Symposium organizer, Pacifichem, 2015
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, J. Phys.
Chem. A, 2016
Senior Editor, J. Phys. Chem. A/B/C, since
2016
Guest Editor, Proc. Roy. Soc. (J. N. Murrell
special issue), 2016 – 2017
Vice Chair, Gordon Research Conference on
Molecular Interaction and Dynamics, 2018
Member, Nominating Committee, Division of
Chemical Physics, American Physical Society, 2019-2010
Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Molecular
Interaction and Dynamics, 2020 (postponed to 2022)
Humboldt Research Award, 2019-2020
Member, Board of Reviewing Editors, Science,
2020-2022.
Guest Editor, Special Topic Issue on Quantum
Dynamics with Ab Initio Potentials, J. Chem. Phys., 2020-2021
Alternate Councilor, ACS PHYS division, 2020-2022
Board of Editors, Molecules, since 2021
Symposium organizer, 2021 March APS National
meeting
Symposium organizer, 2021 Spring National ACS
Meeting
Scientific committee, 2024 Faraday Discussion
on New Directions in Molecular Scattering