Ziwen Xie graduated from the XJTLU/University of Liverpool and carried out further research at the Imperial College, London, followed by 5 years of working as laboratory technician in Department of Biological Sciences  in XJTLU, and start PhD journey until 2024. His research focuses on the Mycobacteria protein function study for further potential drug target identifcation He has authored 2 publications. He has support supervised one PhD student, more than 10 master students and more than 20 undergraduated students in XJTLU as a technician or teaching assistant during PhD journey. He has served as an experimental consultant for XJTLU iGEM team for 6 years, contributing to the team's consecutive gold awards in 4 years.  After PhD, he continued to work as a senior technician in the Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics.

• Mycobacteria protein crystallyzation and enzyme activity
• Mycobacteria protein function in cell wall and menaquinone biosynthesis
• Potential drug target in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

• Senior (Biology) Technician, Department of Biosciences and Bioinformatics, XJTLU - Since 01/2025
• PhD of Science in Biological Sciences, School of Science, XJTLU -  12/2019 - 09/2024
• Experimental consultant for XJTLU iGEM team - 10/2019 - 10/2024
• Laboratory (Biology) Technician, Biological Sciences, XJTLU - 01/2015 - 11/2019
• Part-time Laboratory Technician in Biological Sciences, National pear research center, Nanjing Agricultural University - 06/2013 - 08/2013
• Part-time Laboratory assistant, Suzhou GoodeePHarama Co.Ltd - 06/2010 - 08/2010

• BIO113 - Molecular Biology Techniques (2022-23 to Present; TAs Leader)
• BIO202 - Advanced Biochemical Methods (2020-22, 2022-2023; TAs Leader)
• BIO204 - Advanced Genetics (2021-23; TAs Leader)
• BIO205 - Molecular and Cell Biology Techniques (2021-23; TAs Leader)
• BIO401 - Research Method in Biotechnology, MRes Molecular Bioscience (2020 to 2022, TA)

• iGEM Gold Medal, Top 10 in the undergraduate group, first place in the Special Award for New Composite Part, nomination for the Special Award for Best Wiki, nomination for the Track Award for Oncology – Team XJTLU-Science-CHINA (Instructor) (2025).
• iGEM Silver Medal - Team XJTLU-AI-CHINA (Instructor) (2025)
• iGEM Bromze Medal – Team XJTLU-CHINA (Advisor) (2024).
• Teaching Assistant Award - XJTLU 2024 Academic Excellence Awards (2024).
• iGEM Gold Medal – Team XJTLU-CHINA (Advisor) (2023).
• Excellent Oral Presentation Award - XJTLU postgraudate research symposium, XJTLU, China (2022)
• iGEM Gold Medal – Team XJTLU-CHINA (Instructor) (2022).
• Best Poster Award - XJTLU postgraudate research symposium, XJTLU, China (2021).
• iGEM Gold Medal – Team XJTLU-CHINA (Instructor) (2021).
• In the program:
  J. Meng, X. Cui, S.J. Gao, R. Rong, F. Gao, Z. Xie and D. Carrillio, Bioinformatics approaches for RNA methylation-related high-throughput sequencing data and RNA methylome regulatory network reconstruction (RNA甲基化修饰高通量测序数据的生物信息方法开发以及RNA甲基化修饰调控网络的系统重建), National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Program (国家自然科学基金面上项目), 31671373, 570k RMB, (2017 - 2020).
• XJTLU Outstanding Student for 2010-2011 Academic year (2011).