Dr. Yizhuang Xu was born at Beijing, China in 1967. He received his

bachelor and master degree in 1991 and 1994 at Department of Chemistry,

Peking University. Then he got his PhD of physical chemistry at College

Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University in 1997. After

finishing his postdoctoral research at Peking University in 1999, he worked

as a senior visitor in Institute of chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Then he became a faculty member of College of Chemistry and Molecular

Engineering, Peking University in 2001 and he was promoted as associate

professor in 2002. He won ACSBI award and worked as visiting scholar at

Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH, USA. Dr. Xu

has published more than 150 papers and won the 1st Prize for Natural

Science, the Ministry of Education of China in 2000 and the 1st Prize for

Achievement in Improving Science and Technology, Beijing Municipality

in 2001. His research interests include molecular spectroscopy and its application in material and

medical sciences. In recent years, he developed orthogonal sample designed schemes and a series of

relevant approaches to characterize intermolecular interaction by using two-dimensional correlation

spectroscopy.

The Asian Regional Conference on 2DCOS (2DCOS-2014)

Sponsored by college of chemistry and molecular engineering, Peking University and Thermo Fisher

Scientific, The Asian Regional Conference on 2DCOS (2DCOS-2014) was held (19, April, 2014 - 20,

April, 2014) at the beautiful campus of Peking University. Prof. Isao Noda, the pioneer of

two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy was invited as the chairman of the conference, Prof. Young

Mee Jung (Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea) and Experts of 2D correlation

spectroscopy from Tsinghua University, Jinlin University and Chinese Academy of Sciences are

invited. 12 papers based on the wonderful talks of the conference are submitted as a special column of

two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy in this issue of Chinese Chemical Letters.

Yizhuang Xu

Guest Editor