长期从事木质纤维素生物质的化学和生物法转化为生物能源和化学品的多尺度特性、多元化转化研究，结合生物、化学、化工和电化学方法开发生物质转化新途径。主要研究领域包括木质纤维素抗降解屏障的分子机制、预处理过程的工艺开发和反应机理、纤维素酶催化水解反应过程强化及原理、生物质转化的流程模拟、优化与经济性分析和直接生物质燃料电池开发。在ACB，CEJ，GC，AE，BT等生物质领域的主流期刊上发表SCI收录刊物论文80余篇，出版中英文专著各1部，译著1部，论文总引用超过6000次，H指数37（Google学术统计），先后有4篇论文为ESI高引论文；申请发明专利30项，其中16项获得授权。担任Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining、Molecules等期刊编委。曾获得清华之友-刘述礼育才奖（2019）、侯德榜化工科学技术奖-青年奖（2017）、Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review 期刊中国区最高引论文奖（2017）、石油和化学工业联合会技术发明一等奖（2016，排名第五）等奖项。

●  教育与工作经历

2016.09 至今      清华大学化学工程系    副教授，博士生导师

2011.07-2016.08    清华大学化学工程系    助理研究员，硕士生导师

2014.02-2015.03    美国威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校    博士后

2009.07-2011.06    清华大学化学工程系    博士后

2004.09-2009.07    清华大学化学工程系    博士

2000.09-2004.07    清华大学化学工程系    学士

2008.05-2008.07    荷兰阿姆斯特丹壳牌公司研发中心    研究助理

●  研究领域

木质纤维素生物和化学转化；生物能源；直接生物质燃料电池。

●  开设课程及编写教材

本科生专业选修课《生物质化学工程》

本科生必修课《化工设计》（参讲）

研究生专业课《化工技术经济分析与应用》

●  主要学术任职

2016年~至今   中国可再生能源学会生物质能专委会  会员

2016年~至今   中国化工学会  会员

●  代表性论文/专利/著作

1.Huishan Yang#, Yuchen Bai#, Denghao Ouyang, Fangqian Wang, Dehua Liu, Xuebing Zhao*. Coupling biomass pretreatment for enzymatic hydrolysis and direct biomass-to-electricity conversion with molybdovanadophosphoric heteropolyacids as anode electron transfer carriers. Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2021, 58:133-146.

2.Fangqian Wang#, Denghao Ouyang#, Ziyuan Zhou, Samuel J. Page, Dehua Liu, Xuebing Zhao*. Lignocellulosic biomass as sustainable feedstock and materials for power generation and energy storage. Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2021, 57: 247-280.

3.Xiaogang Chang#, Yuchen Bai#, Ruchun Wu*, Dehua Liu, Xuebing Zhao**.  Heterogeneity of lignocellulose must be considered for kinetic study: a case on formic acid fractionation of sugarcane bagasse with different pseudo-homogeneous kinetic models. Renewable Energy, 2020,162：2246-2258

4.Yu-An Chen#, Huishan Yang#, Denghao Ouyang, Tongxin Liu, Dehua Liu, Xuebing Zhao*. Construction of electron transfer chains with methylene blue and ferric ions for direct conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to electricity in a wide pH range. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2020, 265:118578

5.Yuchen Bai, Samuel J. Page, Dehua Liu, Xuebing Zhao*. Kinetic modelling of acid-catalyzed liquid-phase dehydration of bio-based 2, 3-butanediol considering a newly identified by-product and an updated reaction network. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020, 389: 124451

6.Jingzhi Zhang#, Di Cai#, Yanlin Qin*, Dehua Liu, Xuebing Zhao**. High value-added monomer chemicals and functional bio-based materials derived from polymeric components of lignocellulose by organosolv fractionation. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining 2020, 14(2): 371-401(Front cover paper)

7.Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. Multi-products co-production improves the economic feasibility of cellulosic ethanol: A case of Formiline pretreatment-based biorefining. Applied Energy 2019, 25, 229-244

8.Muhammad Sajid, Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. Production of 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) from 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF): A recent progress focusing on the chemical-catalytic routes. Green Chemistry, 2018, 20, 5427-5453 (Inside back cover paper)

9.Yu-An Chen, Yan Zhou, Yanlin Qin, Dehua Liu, Xuebing Zhao*. Evaluation of the action of Tween 20 non-ionic surfactant during enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulose: Pretreatment, hydrolysis conditions and lignin structure. Bioresource Technology, 2018, 269: 329-338

10.Xuebing Zhao*, Ruchun Wu, Dehua Liu. Evaluation of the mass transfer effects on delignification kinetics of atmospheric acetic acid fractionation of sugarcane bagasse with a shrinking-layer model. Bioresource Technology, 2018, 261: 52-61.

11.Xingkai Cui, Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. A novel route for flexible preparation of hydrocarbon jet-fuels from biomass based platform chemicals: case of using furfural and 2, 3-butanediol as feedstocks. Green Chemistry, 2018, 20:2018-2026

12.Tian Li‡, Nan Liu‡, Xianjin Ou, Xuebing Zhao*, Feng Qi**, Jianzhong Huang, Dehua Liu. Visualizing cellulase adsorption and quantitatively determining cellulose accessibility with an updated fungal cellulose-binding module-based fluorescent probe protein. Biotechnology for Biofuels 2018, 11:105

13.Lei Dong, Ruchun Wu, Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. Phenomenological modeling and evaluation of formic acid fractionating pretreatment of wheat straw with an extended combined severity factor. Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers. 2017, 81: 140-149. doi: 10.1016/j.jtice.2017.09.038.

14.Xuebing Zhao*, Siming Li, Ruchun Wu, Dehua Liu. Organosolv fractionating pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for efficient enzymatic saccharification: chemistry, kinetics and substrate structures. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, 2017, 11: 567-590. DOI: 10.1002/bbb.1768 (Front cover paper)

15.Yi Ding, Bo Du, Xuebing Zhao*, J.Y. Zhu, Dehua Liu. Phosphomolybdic acid and ferric iron as efficient electron mediators for coupling biomass pretreatment to produce bioethanol and electricity generation from wheat straw. Bioresource Technology, 2017, 228:279–289 (Cover paper).

16.Xuebing Zhao*, Yi Ding, Bo Du, J.Y. Zhu, Dehua Liu. Polyoxometalate- mediated lignin oxidation for efficient enzymatic production of sugars and generation of electricity from lignocellulosic biomass. Energy Technology, 2017, 5, 1179–1185

17.Hongmei Chen, Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. Relative significance of the negative impacts of hemicelluloses on enzymatic cellulose hydrolysis is dependent on lignin content: evidences from substrate structural features and protein adsorption ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2016, 4 (12): 6668–6679.

18.Ardak Akimkulova, Yan Zhou, Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. Improving the enzymatic hydrolysis of dilute acid pretreated wheat straw by metal ion blocking of non-productive cellulase adsorption on lignin. Bioresource Technology, 2016, 208:110-116

19.Ruchun Wu, Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. Structural features of Formiline pretreated sugarcane bagasse and their impacts on the enzymatic digestibility of cellulose. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2016, 4 (3):1255–1261.

20.Xuebing Zhao, J.Y. Zhu*, Efficient Conversion of Lignin to Electricity Using A Novel Direct Biomass Fuel Cell Mediated by Polyoxometalates at Low Temperatures. ChemSusChem 2016, 9(2): 197–207.