• M.Sc. (1988) Physical Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China
• Ph.D. (2002) Physics, Tulane University
• Employment:
  • 2002-2005 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, Tulane University
  • 2005-2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Columbia
  • 2007-Present Director's Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory

• Professional Training:
  • 1997-1998 Associate Professor of Chemistry, Yunnan Normal University, P.R. China
  • 2004 Adjunct Professor of Physics, Tulane University

Research Interests:

• Static and Time-Dependent Density Functional Theories
• Ultrafast Optical Phemomena in Strongly-Correlated Electron Materials

Selected Recent Publications:

1. J. Tao, S. Tretiak, and J.-X. Zhu, Excitation energies from a time-dependent nonempirical density functional, J. Chem. Phys. 128, 084110 (2008). LA-UR-07-7564.
2. J. Tao, J.P. Perdew, V.N. Staroverov, and G.E. Scuseria, Exact-exchange energy density in the gauge of a semilocal density functional approximation, Phys. Rev. A 77, 012509 (2008). LA-UR-07-8346
3. J. Tao, G. Vignale, and I.V. Tokatly, Quantum Stress Focusing in Descriptive Chemistry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206405 (2008). LA-UR-07-8345
4. J. Tao, J.P. Perdew, L.M. Almeida, C. Fiolhais, and S. K\"ummel, Nonempirical Density Functionals Investigated for Jellium: Spin-Polarized Surfaces, Spherical Clusters, and Bulk Linear Response, Phys. Rev. B 77 245107 (2008). LA-UR-08-2340