Su-Yuan Xie

Xie Suyuan (; born April 1968), also rendered as Su-Yuan Xie, is a Chinese inorganic chemist whose research focuses on fullerene chemistry and carbon cluster chemistry. He is a professor at Xiamen University and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In April 2026, Xie was appointed president of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University.

Xie has worked on the synthesis, isolation, structural characterization, and functionalization of non-classical fullerenes and other carbon cluster materials. He received a bachelor's degree from the Department of Chemistry of Fujian Normal University in 1988. He later studied at Central South University of Technology and the Kunming Institute of Precious Metals, receiving a master's degree in 1991.

From 1996 to 1999, Xie studied at Xiamen University, where he received a doctorate in chemistry. He subsequently remained at Xiamen University as a faculty member.

From 2003 to 2005, Xie carried out visiting research at Clemson University in the United States on topics related to nanomaterials. In 2004, he became a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Xiamen University.

Honours and awards

In 2001, he received the Chinese Chemical Society Young Chemist Award. In 2005, he received support from the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.

He received the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award of China in 2006 and again in 2015. In 2009, he was appointed a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor.

In 2021, Xie was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Academic service

Xie has served as an associate editor of Science Bulletin and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Xiamen University (Natural Science).

Selected publications

Wei, Tao; Wang, Song; Liu, Fupin; Tan, Yuan-Zhi; Zhu, Xianjun; Xie, Suyuan; Yang, Shangfeng. "Capturing the Long-Sought Small-Bandgap Endohedral Fullerene Sc3N@C82 with Low Kinetic Stability". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2015. 137(8), 3119–3123. doi:10.1021/jacs.5b00199.