Jinjia XU, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Fall 2022- present)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, USA
Email: jxbgk@umsystem.edu
Office: Benton Hall 316c
Office Tel: +1-314-516-5326
Education
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan (Masayuki Takeuchi)
B.S. in Chemistry, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China (Yajiang Yang)
Academic Career
2022-present: Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, MO, USA
2025.5-2025.8: Visiting Research Faculty at the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, NJ, USA
2023.7-2023.9: Visiting Professor at Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2020-2022: Postdoctoral Fellow in Department of Chemistry and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL, USA (Jefferson Chan) and Butler Polymer Research Laboratory, Center for Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Department of Chemistry at the University of Florida, USA (Daniel A. Savin)
2018-2020: Postdoctoral Scholar in Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Brick Nanotechnology Center, Center for Implantable Devices, Purdue University, IN, USA (Hugh Lee and Herman O. Stintim)
Grants for Research
2025-2026 CAS Pilot Research Award (PI)
2024-2028 NSF ExpandQISE (PI)
2024-2026 Spinal Cord Injury/Disease Research Program (SCIDRP) (PI)
2023-2024 UM College of Arts and Science Community Engaged Grant (PI), completed
2023-2024 UM Research Award (PI), completed
2022-2024 Banavali Green and Sustainable Chemistry Fund (PI), completed
Selected Awards and Honors
2025 RCSA Scialog Fellow in Quantum Matter and Information
2025 Young Investigator of The Year Award
2025 Visiting Faculty Research Partnership with Princeton University
2024 Junior Faculty Travel Award
2024 UM CAS Pilot Research Award
2024 RSC Nanoscale Emerging Investigator
2023 UM Research Award
2023 UM Global International Fellowship
2015-2018 JSPS Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan
2015 Best Oral Presentation Award, Japan
2015 Junior Researcher Fellowship, NIMS, Japan
Journal Recognition/Highlight:
2023/2025 Guest Editor, Polymers
2023 Guest Editor, Frontier in Chemistry