Sep.2021 –now               Professor, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology          

Oct.2017 – Aug. 2021     Postdoctoral Researcher, Physikalisches Institut, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Germany          

Jul. 2016 – Aug. 2017     Associate Scholar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, USA                    

Aug. 2010 –Jun. 2016    Ph. D. degree in Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy

                                       of Sciences, Beijing, China

1.   Yanyi Pan, Ankita Das, Frank Glorius^*,Jindong Ren^*;Insights into the surface chemistry of N-heterocyclic carbenes, Chemical Society Reviews, 2025, DOI: 10.1039/d4cs01299b.

2.   Jindong Ren^‡,*, Mowpriya Das^‡, Yuxiang Gao^‡, Ankita Das, Andreas H. Schäfer, Harald Fuchs, Shixuan Du *, Frank Glorius*; Cooperative Use of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Thiols on a Silver Surface: A Synergetic Approach to Surface Modification, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146, 47, 32558–32566.

3.   Jindong Ren^‡,*, Mowpriya Das^‡, Helena Osthues, Marvin Nyenhuis, Bertram Schulze Lam-mers, Elena Kolodzeiski, Harry Mönig, Saeed Amirjalayer^*, Harald Fuchs^*, Nikos L. Doltsinis^*, Frank Glorius^*; The Electron-Rich and Nucleophilic N-Heterocyclic Imines on Metal Surfaces: Binding Modes and Interfacial Charge Transfer, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146, 11, 7288–7294.

4.   Zhen-Yu Wang^‡, Jia-Jun Ma^‡, Qianqian Chen^‡, Kefan Wu, Shuigang Xu, Qing Dai, Zheng Zhu, Jindong Ren^*, Hong-Jun Gao, Xiao Lin^*; Visualizing localized nematic states in twisted double bilayer graphene, Nanoscale, 2024, 16: 18852-18858. (“2025 Emerging Investigators” invited).

5.  Jindong Ren, Maximilian Koy, Helena Osthues, Bertram Schulze Lammers, Christian Gutheil, Marvin Nyenhuis, Qi Zheng, Yao Xiao, Li Huang, Arne Nalop, Qing Dai, Hong-Jun Gao^*, Harry Mönig^*, Nikos L. Doltsinis^*, Harald Fuchs^*, Frank Glorius^*; On-surface synthesis of ballbot-type N-heterocyclic carbene polymers, Nature Chemistry, 2023, 15, 1737–1744.

6.   Jindong Ren^#, Matthias Freitag^#, Yuxiang Gao^#, Peter Bellotti, Mowpriya Das, Bertram Schulze Lammers, Harry Mönig, Yuyang Zhang, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Shixuan Du^*, Harald Fuchs^*, Frank Glorius^*; Reversible Self-Assembly of an N-Heterocyclic Carbene on Metal Surfaces, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, 61: e2021151.

Before Independence:

1.   Jindong Ren^#, Matthias Freitag^#, Christian Schwermann^#, Anne Bakker, Saeed Amirjalayer, Andreas Rühling, Hong-Ying Gao, Nikos L. Doltsinis^*, Frank Glorius^*, Harald Fuchs^*; A Unidirectional Surface-Anchored N-Heterocyclic Carbene Rotor, Nano Letters, 2020, 20(8): 5922-5928.

2.  Jindong Ren, Yanan Wang, Jin Zhao^*, Shijing Tan, Hrvoje Petek^*; K atom promotion of O₂ chemisorption on Au(111) Surface, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019, 141(10): 4438-4444.

3.   Jindong Ren, Marvin Cnudde, Dana Brünink, Stefan Buss, Constantin G.Daniliuc, Lacheng Liu, Harald Fuchs, Cristian A.Strassert^*, Hong‐Ying Gao^*, Nikos L.Doltsinis^*; On-surface Reactive Planarization of Pt-Complexes, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, 58(43): 15396-15400.

4.     Jindong Ren^#, Haiming Guo^#,*, Jinbo Pan^#, Yan-Fang Zhang, Yifeng Yang, Xu Wu, Shixuan Du, Min Ouyang, Hong-Jun Gao; Interatomic Spin Coupling in Manganese Clusters Registered on Graphene, Physical Review Letters, 2017, 17(119): 176806.

5.     Jindong Ren^#, Haiming Guo^#, Jinbo Pan^#, Yu Yang Zhang^#, Xu Wu, Hong-Gang Luo, Shixuan Du, Sokrates T.Pantelides^*, Hong-Jun Gao^*; Kondo Effect of Cobalt Adatoms on a Graphene Monolayer Controlled by Substrate-Induced Ripples, Nano Letters, 2014, 14(7): 4011-4015.

6. Shijing Tan, Adam Argondizzo, Jindong Ren, Liming Liu, Jin Zhao^*, Hrvoje Petek^*; Plasmonic coupling at a metal/semiconductor interface, Nature Photonics, 2017, 12(11): 806-812.