Jing Xu obtained her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Hainan University. Beginning in 2006, she carried out doctoral research with Professor Huashi Guan at the College of Medicine and Pharmaceutics, Ocean University of China. Since 2007, she continued her doctoral research in the group of Prof. Peter Proksch and received her Ph.D. degree in 2010 at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. She joined the faculty of Hainan University after her graduation where she is currently a Professor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. She simultaneously took a postdoctoral appointment at Nanjing University with Prof. Renxiang Tan during 2011–2014. In 2016, she worked with Prof. Dr. Peter Leadley at the University of Cambridge as a visiting scholar.