Qiaoqin Guo was born in Weinan, Shaanxi Province, in July 1977. She was an undergraduate student at Xi'an Jiaotong University (1997–2001) and obtained her Master degree from the Materials Department at Xi'an Jiaotong University (2004) and a Ph.D. degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University (2010). She began her academic career almost immediately as a Lecturer at the School of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at Xi’an Technological University in 2010. Her research interests include titanium alloys, aluminium alloys and magnesium alloys.