Yin Xiaowei

Yin Xiaowei (; April 1973 – 26 November 2019) was a Chinese materials scientist, known for his research in composite materials. He served as Professor of Materials Science at Northwestern Polytechnical University, and Executive Vice Dean of the Graduate School of the university.

Biography Yin was born in April 1973 in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, with his ancestral home in Anqiu, Shandong.

He earned his bachelor's (1995), master's, and Ph.D. (2001) degrees from the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an.

Yin published 70 papers in journals included in the Science Citation Index, including 9 highly cited ones. His papers have been cited 3,100 times on SCI, with an h-index of 31. In 2016, he was awarded the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education of China (First Class) and the Shaanxi Provincial Natural Science Award (First Class).

Yin died from an illness on 26 November 2019 in Xi'an, aged 46.