Haiping Xia obtained his B.S. in chemistry in 1983, M.S. in 1986, and Ph.D. in 2002 from Xiamen University. He started to work at Xiamen University in 1986 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1991, and Professor in 1999. His research focuses on the synthesis, reactivity, and applications of metalla-aromatics.
The State Natural Science Award (the First Prize, 2020, the First Accomplisher)
Natural Science Award of Fujian Province（The First Prize, 2018, the First Accomplisher）
The Huang Yao-Zeng Organometallic Chemistry Award of the Chinese Chemical Society in 2016 (Organometallics 2017, 36, 245)
Carbolong Complexes was elected as one of the “Ten Major Scientific and Technological Progress of China's Colleges and Universities” in 2013
“MinJiang Distinguished Professor” in 2010
Received the National Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar of China in 2009
“New Century Excellent Talents in University” Program by the Ministry of Education in 2004
The 7th Fujian “Youth Science and Technology Award” in 2004
The “Young Chemist Award of Chinese Chemical Society at the 60th anniversary of the founding of Chinese Chemical Society” in 1992
Professor in college of chemistry and chemical engineering at Xiamen University
Vice chairman of Fujian Provincial Chemical Society
Member of academic committee of the State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry
Member of the Key Laboratory of Organofluorine Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai Institute of
Organic Chemistry
Member of the Physical Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Chemical Society.
Haiping Xia has published more than 180 peer-reviewed articles, and some of them have been highlighted by science media such as “Science”, “Science Shot”, “Science Daily”, “Nature Chemistry”, “Nature China”, ACS “C&E News”, ACS “Heart Cut”, ACS “Noteworthy Chemistry”, RSC “Chemistry World”, “World of Chemicals” for more than 20 times. In 2014, Prof. Xia was interviewed by the Author Profile column of Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.