After obtaining a Bachelor’s degree (2004) in Chemistry and a PhD (2009) in Polymer at the Wuhan University (China), Pu Xiao started his academic career as a Scientific Associate at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW, Switzerland) from 2009. In 2012, he moved to the Institute of Materials Science of Mulhouse (IS2M, CNRS, France) and worked as a Post-doctoral Fellow.

Design and development of polymer-inorganic hybrid nanoparticles for treatment of pancreatic cancer Development and mechanism study of novel organic photoinitiators and metal-based complexes for polymer synthesis under visible light Design of drug-recognition polymers by combinatorial method for environment applications

Pu Xiao, Jing Zhang, Frédéric Dumur, Mohamad Ali Tehfe, Fabrice Morlet-Savary, Bernadette Graff, Didier Gigmes, Jean Pierre Fouassier, Jacques Lalevée. Photoinitiating Systems: Recent Progress in Visible Light Induced Cationic and Radical Photopolymerization Reactions Under Soft Conditions. Progress in Polymer Science, 41, 32-66, 2015. Jiacheng Zhao, Jacques Lalevée, Hongxu Lu, Rowan MacQueen, Scott H. Kable, Timothy W. Schmidt, Martina H. Stenzel, Pu Xiao. New Role of Curcumin: as Multicolor Photoinitiator for Polymer Fabrication under Household UV to Red LED Bulbs. Polymer Chemistry, 6 (28), 5053-5061, 2015. Pu Xiao, Frédéric Dumur, Jing Zhang, Jean Pierre Fouassier, Didier Gigmes, Jacques Lalevée. Copper Complexes in Radical Photoinitiating Systems: Applications to Free Radical and Cationic Polymerization upon Visible LEDs. Macromolecules, 47 (12), 3837-3844, 2014.