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Dr.
Xia
is the James M. McKelvey Professor for Advanced Materials
in Department of
Biomedical Engineering,
with joint appointments in Department of Energy,
Environmental, and Chemical Engineering; Department of
Chemistry; Department of Radiology, Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; and Division of Biological and Biomedical
Sciences (DBBS) at Washington University.
Dr. Xia received his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry
from Harvard University (with Professor George M.
Whitesides) in 1996, his M.S. degree in inorganic chemistry
from University of Pennsylvania (with the late Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid) in 1993, and
his B.S. degree in chemical physics from
the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
in 1987. He came to the United States in 1991.
Dr. Xia has received a number of prestigious awards, including
the 2009 MRS Fellow,
2006 NIH Director's Pioneer
Award
(NDPA), Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award (2005), Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar (2002), David
and Lucile
Packard Fellow in Science & Engineering (2000), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
(2000), NSF Early
Career Development Award (2000), ACS Victor K. LaMer Award
(1999), and
Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (1997).
Dr. Xia is an
Associate Editor of
Nano Letters
and
has served on the Advisory Boards of Nano Today (2006-),
Langmuir
(2005-),
Chemistry of Materials
(2005-2007),
Science of Advanced Materials (2009-), Nano Research
(2009-), International Journal of Nanoscience
(2004-), International Journal of Nanotechnology
(2004-), and
Advanced Functional Materials
(2001-). He also has served as a Guest Editor
of special issues for
Advanced Materials
five times and
MRS Bulletin
one time.
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