Xin Su studied chemistry at and received his B.Sc. from Nankai University (Tianjin, China) in 2009, where he carried out research on water-soluble calixarenes. He then started his graduate research on hydrazone-based functional materials at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH, USA), and received his PhD in Organic Chemistry in 2013. After working at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) as an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Postdoctoral Fellow, he joined Wiley’s Hoboken office (New Jersey, USA) in 2015 as an Associate Editor in Materials Science, managing day-to-day peer review processes for Advanced Materials, and contributes to the editorial management of Small, Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry and Journal of Applied Polymer Science. He rose to the rank of Deputy Editor in early 2017 prior to his departure from Wiley.

Xin is also a contributing correspondent for multiple research news sources, including ACS Noteworthy Chemistry (since 2012), JACS Spotlights (since 2013), and ChemistryViews (since 2014). He is a recepient of 2015 Early Career Award from Society for Scholarly Publishing.