Profile
Jia Xie
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Jia Xie received his B.S. degree from Peking University in 2002 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2008. He worked as a senior researcher at Dow Chemical and as CTO at Hefei Guoxuan High-Tech Co. He joined Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2015. His research focuses on electrochemical energy storage, especially safe, low-cost, and sustainable battery technology for grid energy storage. He has published over 200 papers, been granted more than 100 invention patents, and received several science and technology awards. He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and an Associate Editor of Energy Storage Materials.