Xiao Wang is an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at Nanjing University. Prior to joining NJU, Xiao was an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He obtained his PhD (2009) from University of Pittsburgh under the guidance of Prof. Dennis Curran, and completed his postdoc at MIT with Prof. Steve Buchwald. His research at NJU focuses on developing sustainable syntheses of life-related molecules such as peptides and nucleotides (Nat. Catal. 2019, 2, 98), and looking retrospectively at their prebiotic formation and chemical evolution on the primordial Earth (Cell Rep. Phy. Sci. 2021, 2, 100375; Chem 2021, DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2021.09.002).