Professor Jin Xuan graduated with a PhD degree from The University of Hong Kong in 2012, with the research topic in energy and environment engineering.

His academic career in the UK started in 2014, when he took up a Lectureship in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. He was appointed as the Associate Director of the Research Centre for Carbon Solutions (RCCS) at Heriot-Watt in 2017.

Professor Xuan joined Loughborough University in 2018 as a Senior Lecturer, was promoted to Professor and awarded a Personal Chair in Low Carbon Processes in 2019 and became Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering in 2020.

Professor Xuan has won a number of prestigious prizes and awards in recognition of his research excellence. He is the recipient of the Beilby Medal and Prize, jointly from the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) in 2020 for his work that ‘has exceptional practical significance in chemical engineering, applied materials science, energy efficiency or a related field’.

Professor Xuan actively takes leadership in the wider research community, globally. He is a Panel Member for the Newton Fund Programme and Full Member of the EPSRC Review College. He has been serving as expert reviewer for research funding agencies across six countries. He is also the Founding Editor of the Elsevier’s new journal 'Energy and AI', and a Topic Editor of ‘Emerging Technologies for Circular Economy’ for Frontiers in Energy Research.

Professor Xuan is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), where he serves as a committee member for its Ethical Principles Committee, as well as a board member of its Process Industries Division.

Professor Xuan is also an advocate for his research and for engineering in general by participating in various outreach events, e.g., European Researchers’ Night (2017), exhibition at the Scottish Parliament (2016), and media interviews. Examples of his research highlights in public media includes “Scientists see the light and make cheaper fuel from sun” by The Times and “Future fuel quest takes a step forward”, by BBC News, and many others. He is interested in promoting science through social media and has won the 1st Place Prize (Engineering Category) in the 2019 Royal Society of Chemistry Twitter Conference.