Jian-Min Yuan

Professor Yuan has taught graduate courses in statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and mathematical physics for years, and special topics in biophysics and in atomic and molecular physics. He has also taught various undergraduate courses, such as general physics, classical mechanics, and thermodynamics. He has conducted research in laser physics, interactions between laser and atoms and molecules, intense laser field effects, nonlinear dynamics, chaos, quantum chaos. More recently, he has carried out research in several areas of biophysics, including protein folding/unfolding, macromolecular crowding effects on protein stability and reactions, signaling pathways related to cancer and diabetes, stochastic dynamics, and non-equilibrium thermodynamics.