Haiwang Yong

Haiwang Yong is an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego. He earned his PhD from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 2021 and was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Irvine (2021–2023). He is a finalist for the LCLS Young Investigator Award at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (2021) and a recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry Faraday Division Horizon Prize (2021). He has served on the Young Editorial Board of Ultrafast Science since 2022. His current research focuses on tracking quantum motions of electrons and nuclei in molecules using ultrafast diffraction and spectroscopic techniques.