Prof. Xiaoqiang Huang (黄小强)

Tenured Professor, School of Chemistry, Nanjing University

Xiaoqiang Huang is a tenured professor in the School of Chemistry at Nanjing University. Professor Huang joined Nanjing University in 2021 and established an independent research group focused on new-to-nature biocatalysis at the interface of synthetic biology and synthetic chemistry.

The Huang Group integrates enzyme engineering, visible-light catalysis, electrochemistry, and organic synthesis to develop mild, selective, and sustainable methods for asymmetric synthesis.

From 2009 to 2015, Xiaoqiang Huang completed an integrated B.S.–M.S. program at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, under the supervision of Professor Ning Jiao. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2019 from the University of Marburg, Germany, under the supervision of Professor Eric Meggers, working on asymmetric catalysis, visible-light catalysis, and electrochemical synthesis.

From 2019 to 2021, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Professor Huimin Zhao at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he studied photoenzymatic radical reactions. These experiences shaped his research program at the intersection of organic synthesis, asymmetric catalysis, radical chemistry, and biocatalysis.

His work has been published in leading journals including Nature, Nature Catalysis, Nature Synthesis, Nature Communications, Accounts of Chemical Research, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.