Professor Xinxin grew up in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, China, and graduated from Northwest University in 2010 with a B.A. in chemistry. From there, he moved to Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), pursuing graduate studies under the guidance of Prof. Qilong Shen and Long Lu. After obtaining a Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 2015, Dr. Shao became a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Dean Toste's lab at UC Berkeley where he worked with new synthetic strategies for chiral Au(III)-catalyzed C-C bond-forming reactions. In 2017, He moved to Duke University in Associate Prof Steven Malcolmson's lab as a postdoctoral fellow. During the stay at Duke, he developed azadiene as new umpolung reagents for synthesis of steric 1,2-Amino tertiary acohols, anti-1,2-diamines. From 2020, he joined Hangzhou Normal university as a Principal Investigator. His current research interests focus on the design, synthesis and applications with novel fluorinated reagents as well as D-labelled buicking blocks.