In December 2020, he joined the Materials Surface Engineering research group of Beijing Institute of Technology, and is currently serving as an associate professor and doctoral supervisor, teaching undergraduate courses such as Physical Chemistry, Transmission Principle and postgraduate courses such as Material Modification and Surface Engineering. His main research interests are the development of new technology for the preparation of functional coatings and the study of material service behavior in extreme environments. He has many years of research experience and achievements in the fields of superhydrophobic anti-icing coating, flame preparation nano coating, plasma preparation thin film coating, surface coating of colloidal particles, and in-situ failure analysis of dielectric materials under high electric field. At present, it has been approved by the National Natural Fund. As the first or corresponding author, he has published 12 academic papers in top journals in the field of material surface interface science such as Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials and ACS Nano.

1. Large-scale application of functional coatings; 2. Vapor phase synthetic deposition nano coating; 3. Surface interface failure of material in extreme environment; 4. Colloidal particles self-assembly.

Aug. 2014 -- Aug. 2018, PhD, Iowa State University (Advisor: Prof. Ludovico Cademartiri)
2011.09 -- 2014.03 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Master
2007.09 -- 2011.06 Hunan University, Bachelor

2020.12-present, Beijing Institute of Technology, Associate Professor
2018.8-2020.11, Postdoctoral Fellow, Iowa State University (PI: Prof. Xiaoli Tan)

(1) Thermal processing of silicones for green, scalable, and healable superhydrophobic coatings；Advanced Materials；28，3677；Xinchun Tian, Santosh Shaw, Kara R Lind, Ludovico Cademartiri.
(2) Simplicity as a Route to Impact in Materials Research； Advanced Materials；29，1604681；Xinchun Tian, Kara R Lind, Bin Yuan, Santosh Shaw, Oskar Siemianowski, Ludovico Cademartiri.
(3) Structural instability of electrically stressed, oxygen deficient BaTiO3 nanocrystals studied by in situ TEM；Advanced Functional Materials；46，2004607；Xinchun Tian*, Geoff L. Brennecka, Xiaoli Tan.
(4) Direct observation of field-intensity-dependent dielectric breakdown in single crystalline TiO2 nanocrystals；ACS Nano；7，8328；Xinchun Tian*, Geoff Lee Brennecka, Xiaoli Tan.
(5) Selective Removal of Ligands from Colloidal Nanocrystal Assemblies with Non-Oxidizing He Plasmas；Chemistry of Materials；30，5961；Santosh Shaw#, Xinchun Tian#, Tiago F Silva, Jonathan M Bobbitt,Fabian Naab, Cleber L Rodrigues, Emily A Smith, Ludovico Cademartiri.