Dr. Donghai Xu is the full Professor and doctoral advisor of Xi'an Jiaotong University, the visiting scholar of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), the national level young talents. He has presided over 12 national and provincial scientific research projects, including international cooperation projects of National Key Research and Development Plan (as the chief scientist) and 3 National Natural Science Foundations, etc. He has published more than 190 SCI papers (with 8 ESI papers), which have been cited more than 6600 times, and his personal H-factor is 42. He has published 4 books in Chinese and English. He has been authorized 58 Chinese invention patents and two American invention patents. He was ever the Executive Director of the National Association of Analytical and Applied Thermal Cracking Academics, and the guest editor of Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis. He has won the Gold Medal of the 8th International Invention Exhibition, the Excellence Award of China Patent, and the first Prize of Science and Technology Award of Shaanxi Higher Education Institutions. He was selected as a member of Xi'an Jiaotong University “Young Top Talent Support Program” Category A, and the annual influence list of the world's top 2% top scientists in 2020-2023.