YOUNAN XIA, Ph.D. Brock Family Chair and GRA Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Tel: (404) 385-3209 Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University Fax: (404) 385-7493 Molecular Science and Engineering Building, Room 3100J http://nanocages.com 901 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400 (USA) Year of Birth: 1965 E-mail: younan.xia@bme.gatech.edu Place of Birth: Jingjiang, China EDUCATION BACKGROUND Institution Degree Dates Harvard University Ph.D.a 1993 – 1996 University of Pennsylvania M.S.b 1991 – 1993 University of Science and Technology of China B.S.c 1982 – 1987 a) Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Soft Lithography: Micro- and Nanofabrication Based on Microcontact Printing and Replica Molding. Advisor: Professor George M. Whitesides b) M.S. Dissertation Title: I. Synthesis, Characterization and Protonic Acid Doping of Poly(2,5-dimethoxyphenylenevinylene); II. Polyaniline Conformations Studied Using a UV-vis-NIR Spectroscopic Method. Advisor: Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid c) B.S. Dissertation Title: Experimental and Simulation Studies of Minimum Smoke Rocket Propellants. Advisor: Professor Shufen Li EMPLOYMENT RECORD Institution Position Dates Georgia Institute of Technology Brock Family Chair and Georgia Research Alliance 01/2012 – (GRA) Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine (Appointments: Biomedical Engineering; Chemistry & Biochemistry; Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering) Washington University James M. McKelvey Professor for Advanced 09/2007 – 12/2011 in St. Louis Materials (Appointments: Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Chemistry, Chemical, Energy & Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science) University of Washington Professor of Chemistry 05/2004 – 09/2007 University of Washington Associate Professor of Chemistry 05/2002 – 05/2004 (Adjunct: Materials Science & Engineering, Chemical Engineering) University of Washington Assistant Professor of Chemistry 07/1997 – 05/2002 (Adjunct: Materials Science & Engineering) Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellow 08/1996 – 07/1997 Fujian Institute of Research Research Assistant 09/1987 – 05/1991 on the Structure of Matter Y. Xia, 8/1/2020 2 HONORS AND AWARDS Highly Cited Researchers in Chemistry and Materials Science, Clarivate Analytics, 2019 Sigma Xi Sustained Research Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019 Highly Cited Researchers in Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science, Clarivate Analytics, 2018 Special Creativity Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2018 MRS Medal, Materials Research Society (MRS), 2017 Inaugural Class of Hall of Fame, Advanced Materials, 2017 Highly Cited Researchers in Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science, Clarivate Analytics, 2017 Outstanding Faculty Research Author Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017 Highly Cited Researchers in Chemistry and Materials Science, Thomson Reuters, 2016 Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016 Highly Cited Researchers in Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science, Thomson Reuters, 2015 Fellow, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2014 Highly Cited Researchers in Chemistry and Materials Science, Thomson Reuters, 2014 Nano Today Award, Elsevier, 2013 National Award in the Chemistry of Materials, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2013 Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience, Materials Research Society (MRS), 2013 Top 100 materials scientists (No. 4) and top 100 chemists (No. 35) in the world from 2000-2010 based on the number of citations per paper, see http://sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/misc/Top100Chemists2000-10/ Top 10 chemists (No. 5) in the world from 1999-2009 based on the number of citations per paper, for details, see http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=409418§ioncode=26 The 2nd most cited scientist in the field of nanomedicine, see http://www.nano-biology.net/labs.php Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2011 Fellow, Materials Research Society (MRS), 2009 NIH Director's Pioneer Award, National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2006 Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award, the North Jersey Section of American Chemical Society (ACS), 2005 Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, 2002 Fellow in Science and Engineering, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, 2000 Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2000 Faculty Early Career Development Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), 1999 Victor K. LaMer Award, American Chemical Society (ACS), 1999 Oversea Young Investigator Award, Chinese Natural Science Foundation, 1999 New Faculty Award, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, 1997 ICI Student Award Finalist, American Chemical Society (ACS), 1997 Stone Corporation Award for the Best Graduate Student, Graduate organization of the University of Science and Technology of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1988 Guo-Mo-Rou Award for the Best Student (the highest honor), University of Science and Technology of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1986 LECTURESHIPS Kenneth J. Klabunde Memorial Lecture, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, October, 2020 University Lecture, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, 2018 Margaret C. Etter Memorial Lecture in Materials Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Twin City, MN, 2018 Rauscher Memorial Lectureship on polymer and materials chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018 Distinguished Lecture, HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 2017 Closs Lecture, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2013 Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience, Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, 2013 Chair Lectureship, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 2013 The Ronald R. Fisher Lectureship in the Biochemical Sciences, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University Y. Xia, 8/1/2020 3 of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 2013 Discovery Lecture, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 2013 Eastman Chemical Company Lectureship, Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Akron, OH, 2012 Materials Day Distinguished Lecture, Materials Research Institute, Penn State University, State College, PA, 2012 Honorary Bent Lecture, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2011 New Power Lectureship, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 2009 PROFESSIONAL OFFICES AND SERVICES Editorial Responsibilities Associate Editor, Nano Letters, 2002 – 2019 Chairman (inaugural) of International Advisory Board, Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2011 – Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Nano Letters, 2020 – Member of Advisory Board, Chemical Reviews, 2019 – Member of Advisory Board, BME Frontiers, 2019 – Member of Advisory Board, Research, 2018 – Member of Advisory Board, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2018 – Member of International Advisory Board, Small Methods, 2017 – Member of International Advisory Board, ChemNanoMat, 2015 – Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Chemical Physics Letters, 2014 – Member of International Advisory Board, Chemistry: A European Journal, 2014 – Member of International Advisory Board, Chinese Journal of Chemistry, 2014 – Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Cancer Nanotechnology, 2014 – Member of International Advisory Board, Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, 2013 – Member of International Advisory Board, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2011 – 2020 Member of International Advisory Board, Chemistry: An Asian Journal, 2010 – Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Accounts of Chemical Research, 2010 – 2016 Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2010 – 2014 Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Science of Advanced Materials, 2009 – Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Nano Research, 2008 – Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Nano Today, 2006 – Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Langmuir, 2005 – 2010, 2013 – 2015 Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Chemistry of Materials, 2005 – 2007 Member of International Advisory Board, International Journal of Nanotechnology, 2003 – Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Nano Letters, 2002 – 2003 Member of International Advisory Board, Advanced Functional Materials, 2001 – Member of Advisory Board of the World Scientific Series in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, World Scientific Publishers, 2009 – Member of Editorial Advisory Board, the Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Marcel Dekker Inc., 2001 Co-Guest Editor of a Thematic Issue on Advanced Materials and Techniques for Transition-Metal Catalysis and Electrocatalysis, Chemical Reviews, 2021 Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Biomaterials in Honoring Professor George M. Whitesides, Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2020 Co-Guest Editor of a Thematic Issue on Single-Atom Heterogeneous Catalysis, Chemical Reviews, 2020 Co-Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Nanomaterials, Elsevier, 2020 Co-Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Nanoparticles for Catalysis, Accounts of Chemical Research, 2013 Co-Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Nanomaterials Research by Chinese Scientists, Advanced Functional Materials, 2010 Co-Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Materials Research at USTC, Advanced Materials, 2010 Co-Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Bionanotechnology, Advanced Materials, 2007 Y. Xia, 8/1/2020 4 Co-Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Shaped-Controlled Nanostructures of Metals and Surface Plasmonics, Materials Research Society (MRS) Bulletin, 2005 Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Soft Lithography and Surface Patterning in Honoring Professor George M. Whitesides, Advanced Materials, 2004 Co-Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Nanowires, Advanced Materials, 2003 Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Photonic Crystals, Advanced Materials, 2001 Co-Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Materials Research in China, Advanced Materials, 1999 Book Co-Editor, Nontraditional Approaches to Patterning and Their Applications, Materials Research Society (MRS), 2004 Book Co-Editor, Unconventional Approaches to Nanofabrication, with Applications in Photonics, Electronics and Sensing, Materials Research Society (MRS), 2003 Book Co-Editor, Nonlithographic and Lithographic Methods of Nanofabrication – From Ultralarge-Scale Integration to Photonics to Molecular Electronics, Materials Research Society (MRS), 2000 Organization of Conferences Member of International Scientific Committee, IUPESM World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2021 (WC2021), Singapore, May, 2021 Member of International Advisory Committee, CIMTEC 2020, Montecatini Terme, Italy, September 2020 Member of International Scientific Committee, the 17th International Conference on BioMedical Engineering (ICBE), Singapore, December, 2019 Member of International Advisory Committee, China Nano 2019, Beijing, China, August 2019 Member of International Advisory Committee, the 5th International Conference on Electrospinning, Shanghai, China, June 2019 Organizing Committee, the 5th Global Congress and Expo on Materials Science & Engineering (GCEMSE2019), Osaka, Japan, June, 2019 Member of International Steering Committee, the 3rd International Conference on Polyol Synthesis, Madrid, Spain, September 2018 Member of International Advisory Committee, CIMTEC 2018, Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy, June 2018 Member of International Advisory Committee, the 4th International Conference on Electrospinning, Stellenbosch, South America, January 2018 Member of the International Scientific Committee, the 2017 International Conference on Clean Energy, Xi’an, China, December 2017. Member of International Advisory Committee, China Nano 2017, Beijing, China, September 2017 Member of International Technical Board, 4th China-United States Symposium on Energy, Shanghai, June 2017 Member of International Consulting Committee, the 4th Annual Conference of Chinese Society of Micro- & Nanoscience and Technology and the 2016 International Conference of Nanobiology and Nanomedicine, Fuzhou, Fujian, China, December 2016 Member of International Scientific Committee, the 3rd International Conference on Bio-inspired and Bio-based Chemistry & Materials, Nice, France, October 2016 Member of International Steering Committee, the 2nd International Conference on Polyol Synthesis, Hikone, Japan, July 2016 Member of International Advisory Committee, the 3rd International Conference on Electrospinning, Otranto, Italy, June 2016 Member of International Advisory Board of the 4th Nano Today Conference, Dubai, December 2015. Member of International Advisory Committee, China Nano 2015, Beijing, China, September 2015 Member of International Scientific Committee, the 2nd International Conference on Bio-inspired and Bio-based Chemistry & Materials, Nice, France, October 2014 Co-chair of the 3rd International Conference on Electrospinning, San Francisco, CA, August 2014 Member of International Scientific Committee, the 1st International Conference on Polyol Synthesis, Paris, France, June 2014 Member of International Advisory Committee, China Nano 2013, Beijing, China, September 2013 Member of International Steering Committee, Frontiers in Nanomedicine, Small Sciences Symposium, Nanyang Y. Xia, 8/1/2020 5 Technological University and Wiley Materials Science, Singapore, December 2012 Member of International Advisory Committee, the 1st International Symposium on Polymer Ecomaterials (PEM 2012), Changchun, China, August 2012 Member of International Advisory Committee, Session Chair, the 2nd International Conference on Electrospinning, Jeju Island, Korea, May 2012 Member of International Advisory Committee, China Nano 2011, Beijing, China, September 2011 Co-organizer for a Symposium on Patterning and Assembly of Nanomaterials and Biomolecules for the International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT), Singapore, June 2011 Session Chair of a Symposium on Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage for the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 2010 Member of Advisory Committee, the 1st International NanoArt Exhibition, Shanghai, China, November 2010 Member of International Advisory Committee, the 18th International Vacuum Congress, the 2010 International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology, and the 14th International Conference on Solid Surfaces, Beijing, August 2010 Session Chair of a Symposium on Multifunctional Nanoparticle Systems for the Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2010 Session Chair, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibit, Shanghai, China, November 2009 Session Chair, the 2nd Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing, China, November 2009 Member of International Advisory Committee, China Nano 2009, Beijing, China, September 2009 Co-organizer of China-USA Workshop on Nanomaterials, Hefei, June 2009 Member of International Advisory Committee, China Nano 2007, Beijing, China, June 2007 Organizer of a Symposium on the Synthesis and Assembly of Nanostructures for Materials Today Asia Meeting, Beijing, China, September 2007 Organizer of a Symposium in Honor of the Priestley Medalist Prof. George M. Whitesides for the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 2007 Co-organizer of a Symposium on Self-Assembly and Nanofabrication for the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 2006 Member of Program Committee of a Symposium on Nanophotonic Materials (NP202), SPIE Optics and Photonics, San Diego, CA, July 2006 Co-organizer of a Symposium on Nanostructured Materials for the American Chemical Society (ACS) Northwest Regional Meeting (NORM), Reno, NV, June 2006 Co-organizer of a Symposium on Nanostructured Materials for the 80th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Boulder, CO, June 2006 Co-organizer of a Symposium on Semiconductor Nanowires for the Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2006 Session Chair of a Symposium on Nanomanufacturing for the Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2006 Session Chair of a Symposium on Plasmonics for the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2005 Session Chair of a Symposium on Self-Assembly for the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2005 Member of Program Committee of a Symposium on Photonic Crystals and Photonic Crystal Fibers for Sensing Applications (SA115), SPIE Optics East, Boston, MA, October 2005 Co-organizer of a Symposium on Unconventional Fabrication Techniques for the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 2003 Co-organizer of a Symposium on Nanostructured Materials and Nanophotonics for the SPIE, San Diego, CA, August 2003 Co-organizer of a Symposium on Self-Assembly and Nanostructured Materials for the Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2003 Subcommittee Member of the 2002 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO'2002), Optical Materials: Fabrication and Characterization, Long Beach, CA, May 2002 Session Chair of a Symposium on Self-Assembly for the Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2002 Y. Xia, 8/1/2020 6 Session Chair of a Symposium on Photonic Crystals for the American Chemical Society (ACS) 2001 National Spring Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 2001 Co-organizer of a Symposium on Nanofabrication for the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 2000 Session Chair of a Symposium on Microfabrication for the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 1999 INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS