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CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2003-2008

Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2008, Ultrafast Solution Dynamics

Advisor: Prof. Mark Maroncelli (GPA 3.95/4.0)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 1995-2002

M.S. of Applied Chemistry, 2002, Supercritical CO₂ Extraction and Fractionation

Advisor: Prof. Yaping Zhao and Prof. Dapu Wang (GPA 3.8/4.0)

B.S of Fine Chemistry, 1999, Oxidation Stability of Rapeseed Oil as Biodegradable Lubricants

Advisor: Prof. Dapu Wang (GPA 3.6/4.0)

B.S of Industrial Engineering, Minor, 1999 (GPA 3.3/4.0)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant: General Chemistry Recitation, Penn State University, 2007

-Recitations, grading quizzes and homework, office hours and meetings, review sessions, and exam proctoring

Teaching Assistant: General Chemistry Lab, Penn State University, 2007

-Prelab lectures, overseeing experiments, discussion sections, grading quizzes and lab reports, office hours and meetings, review sessions, and exam proctoring

Teaching Assistant: Physical Chemistry Lab, Penn State University, 2003-2004

-Prelab lectures, overseeing experiments, discussion sections, grading in-lab questions and lab reports, TA hours and meetings, special projects, and poster sections

Teaching Assistant: Undergraduate Chemistry Recitations/Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1999-2002

RESEACH EXPERIENCE

Doctoral Research: Department of Chemistry, Penn State University, 2003-2008

-Physical property measurements of 16 ionic liquids (phase transition temperatures, densities, refractive indices, surface tensions, solvatochromic polarities, NMR chemical shifts, temperature dependent viscosities, conductivities, and cation diffusion coefficients)

-Study of solvation and rotational dynamics of coumarin 153 in a diverse collection of 21 room temperature ionic liquids using steady-state and time-resolved emission spectroscopy

-Dynamic heterogeneity in ionic liquids studied by the excitation wavelength dependence of emission kinetics of several solutes using steady-state and time-resolved emission spectroscopy

-Ultrafast non-radiative deactivation of malononitriles in conventional solvents with different viscosities and polarities at room-temperature and at low temperatures.

Master Degree Research: Department of Applied Chemistry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1999-2002

-Supercritical CO₂ extraction of lycopene from tomato paste and Vitamin E from soybean sludge

-Antioxidant properties of lycopene and Vitamin E measurement by chemiluminescence

-Operation parameters optimization for supercritical CO₂ extraction and fractionation of ethanol from aqueous solution

-Modeling and simulation of supercritical extraction and fractionation

Undergraduate Research: Department of Applied Chemistry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1998-1999

-Epoxy substitution synthesis of rapeseed oil as biodegradable lubricants

-Oxidation stability measured by PDSC and tribological characterizations

-Environmental analysis of biodegradability

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Dan Waugh Teaching Award, Honorable Mention, Penn State University, 2008
• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, China Scholarship Council, 2007
• Eugene and Jane Apple Science Graduate Fellowship, Penn State University, 2007
• Certificate of Participation for Course in College Teaching, Penn State University, 2006
• Student Travel Award, Penn State University, 2004, 2008
• Braddock Homer Scholarship, Penn State University, 2003
• Excellent Teaching Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2001
• Liuyuan-Shenyudu Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2000
• Sanwa International Bank Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1999
• Exceptional Student (top 1%), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1999
• Excellent Scholarship (four times), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1995-1999

AFFILIATIONS

Member, American Chemical Society

REFERENCES

Mark Maroncelli

Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Penn State University

Phone: 814-865-0898 Email: maroncelli@psu.edu

James Wishart

Chemist, Department of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Lab

Phone: 631-844-4327 Email: wishart@bnl.gov

Joseph T. Keiser

Lecturer in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Penn State University

Phone: 814-863-3209 Email: jtk1@psu.edu

Mine Ucak Astarlioglu

Lecturer in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida

Phone: 352-392-0493 Email: ucakm@ufl.edu

PUBLICATIONS

11. Hui Jin, Chet Swalina, Sergei Arzhantsev, and Mark Maroncelli, Characterization of Malononitriles as Local Fluidity Probes, in preparation for J. Phys. Chem. B
10. Hui Jin, Bernei O'Hare, Jing Dong, Sergei Arzhantsev, Gary A. Baker, James F. Wishart, Alan Benesi, and Mark Maroncelli, Physical Properties of Ionic Liquids Consisting of the Bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide Anion with Various Cations and the 1-Butyl-3-Methyl Imidazolium Cation with Various Anions, J. Phys. Chem. B, 112 (2008) 81-92
9. Hui Jin, Xiang Li, and Mark Maroncelli, Heterogeneous Solute Dynamics in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids, J. Phys. Chem. B, 111 (2007) 13473-13478
8. Hui Jin, Gary A. Baker, Sergei Arzhantsev, Jing Dong, and Mark Maroncelli, Solvation and Rotational Dynamics of Coumarin 153 in Ionic Liquids: Comparisons to Conventional Solvents, J. Phys. Chem. B, 111 (2007) 7291-7302
7. Sergei Arzhantsev, Hui Jin, Gary A. Baker, and Mark Maroncelli, Measurements of the Complete Solvation Response in Ionic Liquids, J. Phys. Chem. B, 111 (2007) 4978-4989
6. Sergei Arzhantsev, Hui Jin, Gary A. Baker, Naoki Ito, and Mark Maroncelli, Solvation Dynamics in Ionic Liquids, Results from ps and fs Emission Spectroscopy, Femtochemistry VII, Ultrafast Processes in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology, A. W. Castleman, Jr. and M. L. Kimble (Elsevier B.V., 2006) 225-234
5. Sergei Arzhantsev, Hui Jin, Naoki Ito, and Mark Maroncelli, Observing the Complete Solvation Responses of DCS in Imidazolium Ionic Liquids, from the Femtosecond to the Nanosecond Regimes, Chem. Phys. Lett., 417 (2006) 524-529
4. Wenli Yu, Yaping Zhao, Zheng Xue, Hui Jin, Dapu Wang, Xiaofeng Liang and Tianxi Hu, the Antioxidant Properties of Vitamine E Extracted from Soybean Sludge Assessed by Chemiluminescence, J. Sci. Food Agric., 82 (2001) 230-233
3. Hui Jin, Yaping Zhao, and Dapu Wang, Technology of Cellulose Hydrolyzing in Supercritical Water, Xiandai Huagong, 21 (2001) 56-59 (Chinese)
2. Wenli Yu, Yaping Zhao, Zheng Xue, Hui Jin, and Dapu Wang, the Antioxidant Properties of Lycopene Concentrate Extracted from Tomato Paste, J. Am. Oil Chem. Soc., 78 (2001) 697-701
1. Hui Jin, Yaping Zhao, Wenli Yu, and Dapu Wang, Scavenging Ability on Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) of Two Natural Antioxidants, Shipin Gongye Keji, 22 (2001) 25-27 (Chinese)

PRESENTATIONS

9. 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 17-21, 2008. Hui Jin, Xiang Li, Mark Maroncelli, Heterogeneous Solute Dynamics in Room Temperature Ionic liquids, Poster Presentation (Primary Author and Presenter).
8. 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 17-21, 2008. Chet Swalina, Hui Jin, Sergei Arzhantsev, Mark Maroncelli, Malononitriles as Windows for Solvent Structure and Friction, Oral Presentation (Secondary Author).
7. 40th ACS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, Queens, NY, May 17-21, 2008. Sergei Arzhantsev, Hui Jin, Mark Maroncelli, Solvation and Solvation Dynamics in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids, Oral Presentation (Secondary Author).
6. 40th ACS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, Queens, NY, May 17-21, 2008. Mark Maroncelli, Hui Jin, Xiang Li, Sergei Arzhantsev, Heterogeneous Solute Kinetics in Ionic Liquids, Oral Presentation (Secondary Author).
5. Material Research Society 2008 Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Mar 24-28, 2008. Sergei Arzhnantzev, Hui Jin, Gary A. Baker and Mark Maroncelli, Fundamental Aspects of Solvation and Charge Transfer in Ionic Liquids, Oral Presentation (Secondary Author).
4. 2nd International Congress on Ionic liquid, Yokohama, Japan, Aug 5-10, 2007. Mark Maroncelli, Hui Jin, Sergei Arzhantsev, Nikhil Patel and Gary Baker, Solvation and Solvation Dynamics in Ionic Liquids, Oral Presentation (Secondary Author).
3. 39th ACS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, Collegeville, PA, May 16-18, 2007. Hui Jin, Sergei Arzhantsev, and Mark Maroncelli, Dynamic Heterogeneity in a Room Temperature Ionic Liquid, Poster Presentation (Primary Author and Presenter).
2. 39th ACS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, Collegeville, PA, May 16-18, 2007. Sergei Arzhantsev, Hui Jin, Nikhil Patel, Gary A. Baker and Mark Maroncelli, Solvation Dynamics in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: from Femtoseconds to Nanoseconds, Oral Presentation (Secondary Author).
1. 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006. Sergei Arzhantsev, Hui Jin, Gary A. Baker, and Mark Maroncelli, Solvation Dynamics in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: Nonexponentiality and Heterogeneity, Oral Talk Presented (Secondary Author).