Xingwei Guo
Associate Professor, Principal Investigator
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5461-0360
Research interests:
- Radical chemistry
- Photochemistry
- Scientific instruments
Contact:
Email: guoxw@sustech.edu.cn
Address:
RM C4044, College of Science Building
Department of Chemistry
Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
No.1088, Xueyuan Blvd, Shenzhen 518055, China
About Me
Xingwei grew up at the foot of the Yanshan Mountains in Qinhuangdao and pursued his undergraduate studies at Hebei University of Technology. In 2007 he joined the group of Zhiping Li at Renmin University of China for his Master studies on iron-catalyzed radical reactions. In 2010 he went on to pursue his PhD in Physical Organic Chemistry from University (LMU) of Munich, Germany, under the supervision of Herbert Mayr, working on the kinetic and mechanistic studies of quinones. After graduating, he joined the group of Samir Z. Zard to study the radical chemistry of xanthates at École Polytechnique in France as a CNRS postdoctoral fellow (2014–2015). Then he moved to Oliver S. Wenger’s lab at the University of Basel in Switzerland as a NCCR postdoctoral fellow (2015–2019), where his work focused on photo-induced electron transfer and photocatalysis. He started his independent career at Tsinghua University as a Tenure-track Associate Professor (2019-2025). In 2025, he transitioned to SUSTech as a Tenured Associate Professor under a joint appointment by the Department of Chemistry and the Center for Advanced Light Source.
Xingwei’s group has developed an advanced time-resolved EPR technique (U-PSD TREPR), which allows to detect transient radicals with an approximately two orders of magnitude higher sensitivity compared to conventional TREPR, without compromising time resolution. This new and universal method can be expected to open a new chapter in radical chemistry.
Xingwei grew up at the foot of the Yanshan Mountains in Qinhuangdao and pursued his undergraduate studies at Hebei University of Technology. In 2007 he joined the group of Zhiping Li at Renmin University of China for his Master studies on iron-catalyzed radical reactions. In 2010 he went on to pursue his PhD in Physical Organic Chemistry from University (LMU) of Munich, Germany, under the supervision of Herbert Mayr, working on the kinetic and mechanistic studies of quinones. After graduating, he joined the group of Samir Z. Zard to study the radical chemistry of xanthates at École Polytechnique in France as a CNRS postdoctoral fellow (2014–2015). Then he moved to Oliver S. Wenger’s lab at the University of Basel in Switzerland as a NCCR postdoctoral fellow (2015–2019), where his work focused on photo-induced electron transfer and photocatalysis. He started his independent career at Tsinghua University as a Tenure-track Associate Professor (2019-2025). In 2025, he transitioned to SUSTech as a Tenured Associate Professor under a joint appointment by the Department of Chemistry and the Center for Advanced Light Source.
Xingwei’s group has developed an advanced time-resolved EPR technique (U-PSD TREPR), which allows to detect transient radicals with an approximately two orders of magnitude higher sensitivity compared to conventional TREPR, without compromising time resolution. This new and universal method can be expected to open a new chapter in radical chemistry.