J. (Jingxiu) Xie, Dr

Dr. ir. Jingxiu Xie (JX) is a tenure track research assistant professor in the Green Chemical Reaction Engineering unit of the Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen, University of Groningen. Her research group focuses on catalytic processes for gas conversion, specifically on the efficient utilization of various (waste or circular) carbon feedstock. Her expertise lies in the synthesis and evaluation of catalytic performance of solid catalysts, with an emphasis on exploiting thermodynamics and kinetics to drive selectivity. The synthesis methods provide options to design and develop catalysts with tailor-made properties, thereby allowing structure-performance relationships of catalysts to be established. Her capability and interests in fixed-bed reactors range from high-throughput parallel reactor set-ups to single reactor advanced kinetic set-ups (steady state isotopic transient kinetic analysis, tapered element oscillating microbalance and co-feed transients).

JX attained her Bachelors from National University of Singapore in 2010. She accepted a scholarship from Eindhoven University of Technology to study her Masters in Chemical Engineering, and graduated cum laude in 2012. Her PhD thesis, defended in 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ir. Krijn de Jong at Utrecht University, focused on Fischer-Tropsch to Olefins. From 2017 to 2019, she was a senior scientist at BasCat, a UniCat BASF Jointlab in Berlin. She was involved in various projects on catalyst development, reactor engineering and digitalization for the selective C-H activation of lower alkanes. In 2019, she returned to academia, collaborating with Professor Unni Olsbye at the University of Oslo to research zeolites for the direct conversion of CO2 into lower olefins through methanol. In 2020, she was appointed tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Groningen, where she established her own research group on catalytic processes for gas conversion.