1972年生于辽宁大连，1995年大连铁道学院应用化学系获学士学位，2000年大连化学物理研究所获博士学位，2001年被聘为副研究员，2007年被聘为研究员。多项研究成果应用于我国新型飞机、长征运载火箭及神舟飞船等空间飞行器，先后获国家部委高技术装备发展建设工程奖章、中国科学院参加载人优秀工作者、第七届大连市十大青年科技标兵、第十一届中国科学院十大杰出青年等表彰，曾获省部级一等奖三项，国家技术发明二等奖一项，发表SCI论文90余篇。
现主要从事空间飞行器化学推进动力新型推进剂与催化剂研究，承担多项国家973计划、863计划、自然科学基金及中科院知识创新重要方向等课题。
主要研究方向：
☆ 新型化学动力催化材料
☆ 化学推进中的结构化催化剂与反应器技术
☆ 微量吸附量热与催化
代表著作：
1. Jian Lin, Botao Qiao, Jingyue Liu, Yanqiang Huang, Aiqin Wang, Lin Li, Wansheng Zhang, Lawrence F. Allard, Xiaodong Wang*, Tao Zhang*, Design of a Highly Active Ir/Fe(OH)x Catalyst: Versatile Application of Pt-Group Metals for the Preferential Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Doi: 10.1002/anie.201106702.
2. Jian Lin, Lin Li, Yanqiang Huang, Wansheng Zhang, Xiaodong Wang*, Aiqin Wang, Tao Zhang*, In Situ Calorimetric Study: Structural Effects on Adsorption and Catalytic Performances for CO Oxidation over Ir-in-CeO2 and Ir-on-CeO2 Catalysts, J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115, 16509-16517.
3. Jian Lin, Yanqiang Huang, Lin Li, Botao Qiao, Xiaodong Wang*, Aiqin Wang, Tao Zhang*, Exerting the structural advantages of Ir-in-CeO2 and Ir-on-CeO2 to widen the operating temperature window for preferential CO oxidation, Chem. Eng. J. 2011, 168, 822-826.
4. Yanyan Zhu, Xiaodong Wang*, Aiqin Wang, Guotao Wu, Junhu Wang, Tao Zhang*, Identification of the chemical state of Fe in barium hexaaluminate using Rietveld refinement and 57Fe Mossbauer spectroscopy, J. Catal. 2011, 283, 149-160.
5. Yanyan Zhu, Xiaodong Wang*, Guotao Wu, Yanqiang Huang, Yan Zhang, Junhu Wang, Tao Zhang*, Evolution of Fe Crystallographic Sites from Barium Hexaaluminate to Hexaferrite, J. Phys. Chem. C 2012, 116, 671-680.
6. Yanyan Zhu, Xiaodong Wang*, Yan Zhang, Junhu Wang, Yanqiang Huang, Charles Kappenstein, Tao Zhang, Effect of Ir crystallographic site on the catalytic performance of Ir-substituted barium hexaferrites for N2O decomposition, Appl. Catal. A 2011, (409-410), 194-201.
7. Ting Lu, Liangen Xia, Xiaodong Wang*, Aiqing Wang, Tao Zhang*, A Dually Effective Inorganic Salt at Inducing Obvious Viscoelastic, Langmuir 2011, 27, 9815-9822.
8. Ming Tian, Aiqin Wang, Xiaodong Wang*, Yanyan Zhu, Tao Zhang*, Effect of large cations (La3+ and Ba2+) on the catalytic performance of Mn-substituted hexaaluminates for N2O decomposition, Appl. Catal. B 2009, 92, 437-444.
9. Lin Li, Xiaodong Wang*, Aiqin Wang, Jianyi Shen, Tao Zhang*, Relationship between adsorption properties of Pt-Cu/SiO2 catalysts and their catalytic performance for selective hydrodechlorination of 1,2-dichloroethane to ethylene, Thermochimica Acta 2009, 494, 99-103.
10. Shaomin Zhu, Xiaodong Wang, Aiqin Wang, Yu Cong, Tao Zhang*, A novel Ir-hexaaluminate catalyst for N2O as a propellant, Chem. Commun. 2007, 1695-1697.
