Younan Xia

Younan Xia
Born (1965-10-16) October 16, 1965
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
AwardsNAI elected member (2024); ACS Linus Pauling Medal (2024); ACS Creative invention award (2023); IUMRS Frontier Materials Scientists Award (2022); NSF Special Creativity Award (2018); MRS Medal (2017); ACS Fellow (2014); Nano Today Award (2013); ACS National Award in the Chemistry of Materials (2013); MRS Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience (2013); AIMBE Fellow (2011); MRS Fellow (2009); NIH Director's Pioneer Award (2006); ACS Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award (2005); Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar (2002); David and Lucile Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering (2000); Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2000); NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (1999); ACS Victor K. LaMer Award (1999); and Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (1997)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science, Nanotechnology
InstitutionsGeorgia Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorGeorge M. Whitesides
Websitewww.nanocages.com

Younan Xia (Chinese: 夏幼南; born 1965) is a Chinese-American chemist, materials scientist, and bioengineer. He is the Brock Family Chair and Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, with joint appointments in the School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience at the Georgia Institute of Technology.