Prof.Dr.Xie is the Director of Institute of Environmental Microbiology & Bioresouce Science. He joined Huazhong University of Science and Technology as a professor in 2018. His research interest focuses on microbiology, synthetic biology and biorefinery, especially focus on lignin biodegradation and valorization to multiple products for bioenergy, biomedicine and biomaterial. He has published more than ten papers about lignin bioconversion in high impact journals including Advanced Science, Green Chemistry, Current Opinion in Biotechnology.