At SIOM, we pursue science topics in laser-plasma interactions, in particular, research on laser driven ion acceleration and its applications. Our research has included fundamental studies that explore high power intense laser plasma sources of energetic particles and photons at petawatt driver levels. A major motivation is the potential application of laser-based radiotherapy. In our experiments, we aim to explore the radiobiology of extreme irradiation regimes and demonstrate first medical applications with pulsed, laser-accelerated ion sources.

We are constantly looking for motivated candidates for PhD and Postdoc positions and welcome your applications. Please contact

Jianhui.bin@siom.ac.cn

Jianhui Bin is a full Professor at Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIOM, CAS). Bin received his bachelor and master degree from Tianjin University and from Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS in 2006 and in 2009, respectively. He received his doctor degree from LMU München / MPQ in 2015 and continually worked as a postdoc till 2017. He worked Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as a Feodor Lynen research fellow until 2019, with funding from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Afterwards, he joined SIOM as a full professor since 2020. His work was focused on science topics in laser-plasma interactions, particularly on laser driven radiation sources and its applications on cancer therapy, space exploration, EUV light source, etc. 

PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), Physics, Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik and LMU Muenchen, Germany, 2010-2015

Master of Engineering in Optical Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2006-2009

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Science and Technology (for optoelectronic technology), Tianjin University, China, 2002-2006

Full Professor, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2020-present

Affiliate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, 2020-2021

Postdoc, Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, 2017-2020

Postdoc, LMU Muenchen, Germany, 2015-2017

Conference Chair, SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, Conference OO121, ALPA 2027: Applying Laser-driven Particle Acceleration, 2026-present

Board member, Shanghai Optical Society, 2021-present

Editorial Board member, Scientific Reports, 2026-present

Early career editorial board member, iMed, 2026-present

Chairman, 730 Xiangshan Science conferences: Laser-based plasma accelerator and deep space exploration: opportunities and challenges, 2023

Guest editor, High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Special issue on "Relativistic Laser Plasma Interaction (RLPI) Diagnostics and Instrumentation", 2022

Guest editor, Journal of National University of Defense Technology, 2025-2026

Early career editorial board member, China Laser Press, 2022-2026

Early career editorial board member, High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2022-2026

Adjunct PhD supervisor, University of Science and Technology of China, 2021-present

Adjunct PhD supervisor, Tongji University, 2021-present

Adjunct PhD supervisor, Shanghai University, 2023-2025

Adjunct PhD supervisor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2021-2025

   

1. Nanosecond laser-driven proton FLASH spares normal tissue cells by sustaining mitochondrial homeostasis and attenuating ferroptosis, iMed, 2026
2. Multi-Energy Proton radiation effects on Silicon Photonic Mach–Zehnder Modulators and Hydrogen-Loading Pretreatment with enhanced radiation resistance, Photonics Research, 2026
3. Proton-Radiation Hardening of High-Speed Ge/Si Integrated Photodetectors for Space Applications, Nanophotonics, 2026
4. Molecular engineering of self-assembled monolayers for proton radiation-hardened flexible perovskite solar cells, Applied Physics Letters, 2026
5. Robust enhancement of extreme ultraviolet radiation via transient electrostatic field induced by electron nanobunches from double nanofoils, Optics Express, 2026
6. Research on Laser-Driven Proton Acceleration Gain with Periodic-Wavelength-Arranged Target, Acta Optica Sinica, 2026
7. Extreme Faraday effect in plasma under relativistic conditions, Optics Express, 2025
8. Advancing perovskite photovoltaics for space: critical stability testing guidelines (Commentary), Advanced Photonics, 2025
9. A renewable double plasma mirror for Petawatt-class lasers, Scientific Reports, 2025
10. On the study of proton acceleration from double-layer nanofoils, AIP Advances, 2025
11. Hunting for sources of variability in laser-proton acceleration with thin foils, Physcis of Plasmas, 2025
12. Enhanced proton acceleration from an ultrathin double-foil target with circularly polarized laser pulses, Physcis of Plasmas, 2025
13. Simulation on Plasma-Based Polarization Optics for Relativistic Laser Pulses, Acta Optica Sinica, 2025
14. Petawatt pulse pushes protons (News & Views), Nature Physics, 2024
15. Beam smoothing by introducing spatial dispersion for high-peak-power laser pulse compression, Optics Express, 2023
16. Defect engineering of silicon with ion pulses from laser acceleration, Communications Materials, 2023
17. Toward 3D imaging of femtosecond laser filament in air by a CCD within a single exposure, Optics Express, 2023
18. A new platform for ultra-high dose rate radiobiological research using the BELLA PW laser proton beamline, Scientific Reports, 2022
19. Online charge measurement for petawatt laser-driven ion acceleration, Review of Scientific Instruments, 2022
20. Emittance preserving thin film plasma mirrors for GeV scale laser plasma accelerators, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams, 2021
21. A compact, high resolution energy, and emittance diagnostic for electron beams using active plasma lenses, Appl. Phys. Lett., 2020
22. A feasibility study of zebrafish embryo irradiation with laser-accelerated protons, Review of Scientific Instruments, 2020
23. Laser-heated capillary discharge plasma waveguides for electron acceleration to 8 GeV, Physics of Plasmas, 2020
24. Acceleration of high charge ion beams with achromatic divergence by petawatt laser pulses, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams, 2020
25. Laser-heated capillary discharge waveguides as tunable structures for laser-plasma acceleration, Phys. Plasmas, 2020
26. Target normal sheath acceleration with a large laser focal diameter, Phys. Plasmas, 2020
27. Absolute calibration of GafChromic film for very high flux laser driven ion beams, Review of Scientific Instruments, 2019
28. Ion acceleration in laser generated megatesla magnetic vortex, Physics of Plasmas, 2019
29. Temporally Resolved Intensity Contouring (TRIC) for characterization of the absolute spatio-temporal intensity distribution of a relativistic, femtosecond laser pulse, Scientific Reports, 2019
30. I-BEAT: Ultrasonic method for online measurement of the energy distribution of a single ion bunch, Scientific Reports, 2019
31. Petawatt Laser Guiding and Electron Beam Acceleration to 8 GeV in a Laser-Heated Capillary Discharge Waveguide, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2019
32. Enhanced Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration by Superponderomotive Electrons Generated from Near-Critical-Density Plasma, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2018
33. Ring-like spatial distribution of laser accelerated protons in the ultra-high-contrast TNSA-regime, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2018
34. A novel approach to electron data background treatment in an online wide-angle spectrometer for laser-accelerated ion and electron bunches, Review of Scientific Instruments, 2018
35. Dynamics of laser-driven proton acceleration exhibited by measured laser absorptivity and reflectivity, Scientific Reports, 2017
36. The impact of femtosecond pre-pulses on nanometer thin foils for laser-ion acceleration, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2017
37. An automated, 0.5 Hz nano-foil target positioning system for intense laser plasma experiments, High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2017
38. Proton acceleration by single-cycle laser pulses offers a novel monoenergetic and stable operating regime, Physics of Plasmas, 2016
39. Laser-driven ion acceleration from carbon nano-targets with Ti: Sa laser systems, PhD thesis, 2015
40. Ion Acceleration Using Relativistic Pulse Shaping in Near-Critical-Density Plasmas, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2015
41. Bright Subcycle Extreme Ultraviolet Bursts from a Single Dense Relativistic Electron Sheet, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2014
42. Dependence of Laser-Driven Coherent Synchrotron Emission Efficiency on Pulse Ellipticity and Implications for Polarization Gating, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2014
43. Laser-driven three-stage heavy-ion acceleration from relativistic laser-plasma interaction, Phys. Rev. E, 2014
44. On the small divergence of laser-driven ion beams from nanometer thick foils, Physics of Plasmas, 2013
45. Efficient and stable proton acceleration by irradiating a two-layer target with a linearly polarized laser pulse, Physics of Plasmas, 2013
46. A laser-driven nanosecond proton source for radiobiological studies, Appl. Phys. Lett., 2012
47. Introducing the fission–fusion reaction process: using a laser-accelerated Th beam to produce neutron-rich nuclei towards the N=126 waiting point of the r-process, Applied Physics B, 2011
48. Improving proton acceleration with circularly polarized intense laser pulse by radial confinement with heavy ions, Physics of Plasmas, 2010
49. Influence of the target front-surface curvature on proton acceleration in laser-foil interaction, Physics of Plasmas, 2009
50. Quasi-monoenergetic proton beam generation from a double-layer solid target using an intense circularly polarized laser, Laser and Particle Beams, 2009
51. Influence of Initial Plasma Temperature on Energetic Proton Generation From Laser-Plasma Interactions, Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2009

• 2026 KPS Fall Meeting, Jeju, October 2026, Invited.
• 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics, Busan, October 2026, Invited.
• Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop 2026, Los Angeles, July 2026, Invited.
• 第二届强场·QED·等离子体前沿研讨会, Yining, July 2026, Invited.
• 34th Annual International Laser Physics Conference, Belén, July 2026, Invited.
• Shang-Gwangju Symposium on Intense Laser Plasma and Strong-Field QED, Shanghai, June 2026, Invited.
• OPIC/LSSE International Conference 2026, Yokohama, April 2026, Invited.
• Sino-German Youth Forum on High-Intensity Laser Research and Applications, Hongkong, November 2025, Invited.
• 3rd International Conference on UltrafastX 2025, Xiamen, October 2025, Invited.
• 7th European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, Isola d'Elba, September 2025, Invited.
• 2025年光学工程前沿交叉科学大会, Jinhua, August 2025, Invited.
• 33th Annual International Laser Physics Conference, Szeged, July 2025, Invited.
• 第二届脉冲辐射探测与成像技术学术论坛, Xi'an, June 2025, Invited.
• IWLS 2025, Hangzhou, June 2025, Invited.
• 第二届全国非线性光学技术及应用学术会议, Jinan, May 2025, Invited.
• 第二届激光聚变与加速研讨会, Changsha, April 2025, Invited.
• HPLPB2025, Kunming, April 2025, Invited.
• Joint 9th Target Fabrication workshop and 6th TARG workshop, Oxford, April 2025, Invited.
• 第四届全国光子技术论坛, Shenzhen, December 2024, Invited.
• 2024全国FLASH放射治疗技术研讨会, Mianyang, November 2024, Invited.
• International Conference on Space Habitation and Exploitation 2024, Chongqing, November 2024, Invited.
• 7th International Symposium on Laser Interaction with Mattter, Shenzhen, November 2024, Invited.
• 上海市激光学会2024年学术年会, Shanghai, August 2024, Invited.
• Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop 2024, Chicago/Napperville, July 2024, Invited.
• Beijing Satellite Workshop of ICMRE, Beijing, May 2024, Invited.
• 11th Humboldt Award Winners' Forum, Siegburg/Bonn, October 2023, Invited.
• 6th European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, Isola d'Elba, September 2023, Invited.
• 9th High Energy Density Physics Young Scientists Forum, Beijing, August 2023, Invited.
• 18th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers, Shanghai, July 2023, Invited.
• Shenzhen Satellite Workshop of ICMRE, Shenzhen, June 2023, Invited.
• 9th National Conference on High Engery Density Physics, Changsha, November 2022, Invited.
• 2nd China Conference on Cancer Particle Therapy Engineering Technology, Shanghai, October 2022, Invited.
• 730 Xiangshan Science conferences: Laser-based plasma accelerator and deep space exploration: opportunities and challenges, Beijing, September 2022, Chairman+Invited talk.
• OYSS 2021, Fuzhou, September 2022, Invited.
• BPC 2022, Shanghai, August 2022, Invited.
• 6th International Symposium on Laser Interaction with Mattter, Ningbo, August 2022, Invited.
• 1st International Conference on UltrafastX 2021, Xi'an, April 2022, Invited.
• 2021年长三角区域一体化暨中部六省光电论坛, Hefei, January 2022, Invited.
• CPS Fall meeting 2020/2021, Lanzhou, October 2021, Invited.
• 2021中国光学学会学术大会, Shenzhen, September 2021, Invited.
• HPLPB2021, Xi'an, June 2021, Invited.
• Virtual Network Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Online, November 2020, Invited.
• 6th High Energy Density Physics Young Scientists Forum, Changsha, November 2020, Invited.

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, USA)
• Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany)
• Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany)
• Technical University of Dresden (Dresden, Germany)
• Helmholtz Institute Jena (Jena, Germany)
• Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Jena, Germany)
• Technical University of Munich (Munich, Germany)
• Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, HZDR (Dresden, Germany)
• Deutsches Electronen-Synchrotron, DESY (Hamburg, Germany)
• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Didcot, UK)
• Queen's University Belfast (Belfast, UK)
• Imperial College London (London, UK)
• Ruijing Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (Shanghai, China)
• University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei, China)
• Shanghai Jiao Tong Univeristy (Shanghai, China)
• Fudan Univeristy (Shanghai, China)
• Peking Univeristy (Beijing, China)
• Shandong Univeristy (Weihai, China)
• Sichuan University (Chengdu, China)
• Beijing Institute of Technology (Beijing, China)
• Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academic of Science (Hefei, China)
• Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academic of Science (Beijing, China)
• ...

Current Members:

• Make Zhao, Phd Student
• Wenjie Peng, Phd Student
• Haofun Sun, Phd Student (Co-supervised with Prof. Ruxin Li)
• Junfeng Chen, Phd Student
• Luolin Zeng, Phd Student (Co-supervised with Prof. Ruxin Li)
• Xihang Yang, Phd Student (Co-supervised with Prof. Yuxin Leng)
• Haoran Wang, Phd Student (Co-supervised with Prof. Qingcao Liu)
• Yubin Zhang, Phd Student (Co-supervised with Prof. Qingcao Liu)
• Yiwen Chen, Phd Student (Co-supervised with Prof. Xiaoran Li)
• Haotian Hu, Master Student
• Xinxin Yan, Master Student
• Shuyin Zheng, Master Student
• Lu Yue, Master Student
• Boya Ke, Master Student (Co-supervised with Prof. Xiaoran Li)
• Yitong Chen, Master Student
• Mingbing Huang, Master Student
• Yu Zhang, Postdoc

Almuni:

2026:

• Jianzhou Zhuang, Research assistant (2024-2026), Currently Phd student at Peking University
• Minghong Zhong, Master Student (2023-2026), Currently Engineer at Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp.
• Fen Li, Master Student (2023-2026)

2025:

• Zhe Liu, Phd student (2021-2025), Currently Postdoc at National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Japan
• Haoran Wang, Master student (2022-2025), Currently Phd student at Harbin Institute of Technology
• Hongwei Wu, Master student (2022-2025), Currently Engineer at Feibo Laser
• Anbang Duan, Master student (2022-2025)
• Ruitian Liu, Master student (2022-2025), Currently Phd student at Fudan University

2024:

• Xiang Chen, Research assistant (2022-2024), Currently Phd student at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Germany
• Jianzhou Zhuang, Master student (2021-2024), Currently Phd student at Peking University