Shuang Xu received her B.S. from Hebei University majoring in Biotechnology (2011) and M.S. from Chinese Academy of Forestry majoring in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (2014). She then studied microbiology in the Van Dyken Lab at University of Miami and received her Ph.D. (biology) in 2019. Currently, Shuang Xu is postdoctoral research fellow in the Schiffer group at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with research focus in studying infectious diseases caused by pathogenic viruses.