Xin Wang is a research professor of palaeobotany at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who received a Bachelor's degree at Peking University in 1990; a Master's at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1993; and a PhD at the University of Florida in 2004. Interests of note include the origin of angiosperms and their flowers and the evolution of reproductive organs in land plants. Xin Wang is a member of the Palaeontological Society of China, Botanical Society of China, and has authored over one hundred peer-reviewed papers and two versions of the book "The Dawn Angiosperms" (Springer). Xin Wang has been awarded the Most Downloaded Prize of the Taylor & Francis Group and the Excellent Tutor Award by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.