Dr. Isaac C.H. Yuen

Assistant Professor of Physics

Education

Ph.D. 2020  University of Central Florida

B.S.    2013   Hong Kong Baptist University

Professional Appointments

8/2024 - present    Assistant Professor     Kennesaw State University

9/2020 - 7/2024      Research Associate    Kansas State University

2/2018 - 4/2018       Visiting Scientist         University of Le Havre, France

9/2017 - 2/2018        Visiting Scientist         CentraleSupélec, University of Paris-Saclay, France

5/2015 - 8/2015        Guest Researcher       National Institute of Standard and Technology, Maryland

7/2013 - 7/2014        Research Assistant     Hong Kong Baptist University

Awards and Honors

2019   UCF College of Sciences General Scholarship

2017   Chateaubriand Fellowship

Biography

I am a theoretical atomic, molecular, and optical physicist. After obtaining my bachelor degree in physics at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2013, I moved to the US to pursue my physics Ph.D. at the University of Central Florida. During my Ph.D., I worked on modeling collisions between an electron and a molecule, an atom and a molecule, and three atoms for different targets in various environments. After graduating in 2020, I moved to Kansas State University to be a postdoctoral fellow and do research in attosecond and strong-field physics. I have become Assistant Professor of Physics at Kennesaw State University since 2024. Questions that interest me the most are: How can we directly observe electron motion in molecules from experiments? How can we manipulate electron motion and control chemistry in their natural timescale? How can we translate the knowledge and techniques in attosecond and strong-field physics for molecules into applications?

Research

Please visit my research website

Teaching

Fall 2024, Fall 2025, Fall 2026, PHYS 2211. Latest syllabus.

Spring 2025, Spring 2026, Spring 2027, PHYS 3230. Latest syllabus