利用自主研发的团簇质谱-激光光谱联用实验技术和科学仪器，结合理论计算开展原子数可精确操控、结构可精准测定的原子分子团簇结构、光谱学及其动力学等方面的实验和理论研究。研究内容包括团簇物理与化学、天体物理与星际化学、大气物理化学、分子光谱学、能源催化转化机制和原子尺度精准制造等。目前主要围绕实验室天体物理和星际化学、能源催化转化机制和团簇基功能信息器件的设计与构建等开展工作。

2005-2009 电子科技大学 学士

2009-2014 中国科学院化学研究所 博士

2011-2012 美国西北太平洋国家实验室 联合培养

2014-2017 美国西北太平洋国家实验室 博士后

2017-2018 瑞士苏黎世联邦理工学院 博士后

2018-2021 比利时鲁汶大学 博士后/研究员

2022-至今  西安交通大学  教授

1. 基金委重大研究计划培育项目

2. 基金委面上项目

3. 科技部高端外国专家项目

4. 陕西省科技创新团队

十篇代表性论文：

1. Jianzhi Xu, Joost M. Bakker, Olga V. Lushchikova, Peter Lievens, Ewald Janssens*, Gao-Lei Hou*. Pentagon, Hexagon, or Bridge? Identifying the Location of a Single Vanadium Cation on Buckminsterfullerene Surface. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 145, 22243 (2023). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c08451.

2. Jianzhi Xu, Aigen Li*, Xiaohu Li, Gao-Lei Hou*. Towards a reliable prediction of the infrared spectra of cosmic fullerenes and their derivatives in the JWST era. Mon. Notices Royal Astron. Soc. (MNRAS) 525, 3061 (2023). DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2335.

3. Gao-Lei Hou*, Olga V. Lushchikova, Joost M. Bakker, Peter Lievens, Leen Decin*, Ewald Janssens. Buckyball-metal complexes as potential carriers of astronomical unidentified infrared emission bands. Astrophys. J. 952, 13 (2023). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/accf1b.

4. Mengyang Li, Tao Yang*, Joost M. Bakker, Ewald, Janssens, Gao-Lei Hou*. Unveiling the role of C60-supported vanadium single atoms for catalytic overall water splitting. Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. 3, 100910 (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.100910.

5. Gao-Lei Hou*, Tao Yang, Meng-Yang Li, Jan Vanbuel, Olga V. Lushchikova, Piero Ferrari, Joost M. Bakker, and Ewald Janssens. Water Splitting by C60-Supported Vanadium Single Atoms. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60, 27095-27101 (2021). DOI: 10.1002/anie.202112398.

6. Gao-Lei Hou*, Endre Faragó, Dániel Buzsáki, Laszlo Nyulaszi, Tibor Höltzl*, and Ewald Janssens. Observation of the Reaction Intermediates of Methanol Dehydrogenation by Cationic Vanadium Clusters. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60, 4756-4763 (2021). DOI: 10.1002/anie.202011109.

7. Gao-Lei Hou*, and Xue-Bin Wang*. Molecular Specificity and Proton Transfer Mechanisms in Aerosol Prenucleation Clusters Relevant to New Particle Formation. Acc. Chem. Res. 53, 2816–2827 (2020). DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00444.

8. Gao-Lei Hou, Xue-Bin Wang*, and Marat Valiev*. Formation of (HCOO−)(H2SO4) Anion Clusters: Violation of Gas-Phase Acidity Predictions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 11321 (2017). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b05964.

9. Gao-Lei Hou, Bo Chen*, Wesley J. Transue, Zheng Yang, Hansjörg Grützmacher, Matthias Driess, Christopher C. Cummins*, Weston Thatcher Borden*, and Xue-Bin Wang*. Spectroscopic Characterization, Computational Investigation, and Comparisons of ECX− (E = As, P, and N; X = S and O) Anions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 8922 (2017). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b02984.

10. Gao-Lei Hou, Hui Wen, Kenneth Lopata, Wei-Jun Zheng, Karol Kowalski, Niranjan Govind, Xue-Bin Wang*, and Sotiris S. Xantheas*. A Combined Gas-Phase Photoelectron Spectroscopic and Theoretical Study of Zeise’s Anion and Its Bromine and Iodine Analogues. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 51, 6356 (2012). DOI: 10.1002/anie.201201959.