B.S. (1986), the University of Science and Technology of China;

M.S. (1989), Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences;

Research Assistant (1989-1994), Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences;

Ph.D. (1997), the University of Sheffield, U.K.;

Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (1997-1998), Bochum Ruhr University, Germany.

Associate Professor (1999-2003)，Professor (2003-), State Key laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing University.

Research Assistant (1989-1994), Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences;

Associate Professor (1999-2003)，Professor (2003-), State Key laboratory of Coordination Chemistry , Nanjing University.

1.     Hui-Hui Cui, Fang Lu, Xue-Tai Chen,*Yi-Quan Zhang,*Wei Tong and Zi-Ling Xue, Zero-Field Slow magnetic relaxation and hysteresis loop in four-coordinate Co(II) single-ion magnets with strong easy-axis anisotropy, Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58, 12555−12564.

2.     Hui-Hui Cui, Jing Wang, Xue-Tai Chen*and Zi-Ling Xue, Slow magnetic relaxation in five-coordinate spin-crossover cobalt(II) complexes, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 9304-9307.

3.     Lei Chen, Hui-Hui Cui, Shelby E. Stavretis, Seth C. Hunter, Yi-Quan Zhang,* Xue-Tai Chen,* Yi-Chen Sun,Zhenxing Wang,* You Song, Andrey A. Podlesnyak,* Zhong-Wen Ouyang, Zi-Ling Xue,* Slow magnetic relaxations in cobalt(II) tetranitrate complexes. Studies of magnetic anisotropy by inelastic neutron scattering and high-frequency and -field EPR spectroscopy, Inorg. Chem., 2016, 55, 12603-12617.

4.     Lei Chen, Jing Wang, Jin-Mei Wei, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Xue-Tai Chen,* Yi-Quan Zhang,* You Song* and Zi-Ling Xue, Slow magnetic relaxation in a mononuclear eight-coordinate cobalt(II) complex, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 12213−12216.