2023.03-Now, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences          Special Research Assistant

2022.01-2022.12, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)        Postdoc

2018.10-2022.02, Technical University of Denmark         PhD

2015.09-2018.06, Fuzhou University & Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences           MS

2011.09-2015.06, Qingdao University              BS

Selected publications:

1. X. Yan, J. Tang, S. Ma, D. Tanner, R. Ludwig, J. Ulstrup, X. Xiao*. Engineering bio-interfaces for the direct electron transfer of Myriococcum thermophilum cellobiose dehydrogenase: towards a mediator-less biosupercapacitor/biofuel cell hybrid. Biosens. Bioelectron., 2022, 210, 114337.

2. X. Yan, S. Ma, J. Tang, D. Tanner, J. Ulstrup, X. Xiao*, J. Zhang. Direct Electron Transfer of Fructose Dehydrogenase Immobilized on Thiol-Gold Electrodes. Electrochim. Acta, 2021, 392, 138946.

3. J. Guo#, X. Yan#, Q. Liu, Q. Li, X. Xu, L. Kang*, Z. Cao*, G. Chai*, J. Chen, Y. Wang, J. Yao. The synthesis and synergistic catalysis of iron phthalocyanine and its graphene-based axial complex for enhanced oxygen reduction. Nano Energy, 2018, 46, 347-355.

4. X. Yan, X. Xu, Q. Liu, J. Guo, L. Kang*, J. Yao*. Functionalization of multi-walled carbon nanotubes with axially- coordinated iron phthalocyanine for oxygen reduction in alkaline media. J. Power Sources, 2018, 389, 260-266.

5. X. Yan, X. Xu, J. Guo, L. Kang*. The effect of oxygen content of carbon nanotubes on the catalytic activity of carbon- based iron phthalocyanine for oxygen reduction reaction. Electrochim. Acta, 2018, 281, 562-570.