Dr Tiancun Xiao is a co-founder of Healthy Air Technology Ltd (HATL) and the inventor of its D-Orbital Nano Oxide (DNO) catalyst technology, which HATL combines with HEPA-13 filtration in its air purifiers. He is HATL’s lead researcher.
He is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, where he has worked since 2004, having come to Oxford in 1999 on a Royal Society BP-Amoco Fellowship. His research focuses on catalysts for energy production and environmental purification, including supported transition-metal and metal-oxide catalysts. He has published more than 260 papers and filed more than 40 patents.
He holds a BSc from Northwest University, China (1987), and a PhD in physical chemistry from the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1993). Before moving to Oxford he was an associate professor at Shandong University.
Alongside HATL, he co-founded Oxford Catalysts Ltd in 2004, serving as its Chief Scientific Officer, and Oxford Sustainable Fuels in 2017.