Xia is the Brock Family Chair and Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminenent Scholar in Nanomedicine at Georgia Tech and holds joint appointments in the The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
He received a B.S. degree in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1987, a M.S. degree in inorganic chemistry from University of Pennsylvania in 1993, and a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University in 1996. His group has invented a myriad of elegant approaches to the facile synthesis of metal nanocrystals with well-controlled sizes, shapes, structures, compositions, and properties, which did not exist previously. These novel nanocrystals open up a world of opportunities for many applications as diverse as plasmonics, surface-enhanced Raman scattering, electronics, photonics, photovoltaics, display, catalysis, fuel cells, and biomedical research, all of which will have a profound impact on the society. He has co-authored more than 530 publications in peer-reviewed journals, together with a total citation of more than 63,300 and an h-index of 132. He has been named a Top 10 Chemist and Materials Scientist based on the number of citation per publication.
He has received a number of prestigious awards, including American Chemical Society (ACS) National Award in the Chemistry of Materials (2013); Materials Research Society (MRS) Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience (2013), NIH Director's Pioneer Award (2006); ACS Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award (2005); David and Lucile Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering (2000); NSF CAREER Award (2000); Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2000); and ACS Victor K. LaMer Award (1999). He has served as an Associate Editor of Nano Letters since 2002 and he is serving on the advisory boards of many journals including Accounts of Chemical Research, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Nano Today.
At the Nano Today Conference in December which will be held in Singapore, Xia will be presented with the award.
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