Prof. Tingting Xu is mainly engaged in the research of dye-sensitized solar cells, organic and inorganic hybrid functional materials, polymer-based solar cells, nano-semiconductor materials, etc. She received her Bachelor and Master degrees from Northwestern Polytechnical University from 2000 to 2007 and her PH.D. degree from South Dakota State University from 2007 to 2012. She is associate professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University since 2013.