Dr. Yajun Xu is a Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Renowned Teaching Expert in Beijing.

More positions:

-Deputy Chairman of the Nutrition and Chronic Disease Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society

-Executive Director of the Maternal and Child Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society

-Expert Member of the Expert Committee of the Nutrition Improvement Program

for Students Receiving Compulsory Education in Rural Areas of the Ministry of -Education

-Member of the National Technical Committee on Special Dietary Foods Standardization (SAC/TC466)

-Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Exposomics and Exposure Science of the Chinese Society for Mutagenesis

-Executive Director of the Professional Committee of Nutritional Medicine of the Chinese Research Hospital Association

-Executive Director of the Beijing Preventive Medicine Association

Vice President of the Beijing Nutrition Society

-Associate Editor-in-Chief or Editorial Board Member of Several Core Journals at Home and Abroad

In 2009, she was awarded the title of Capital Education Pioneer in Scientific and Technological Innovation. In 2011, she received the National Outstanding Teacher Award from the Fok Ying Tung Foundation. In 2012, she was awarded the Huang Tingfang/Sino Land Outstanding Young Scholar Award of Peking University. In 2017, she was titled as the " Pioneer Teacher in Online Education " by the Ministry of Education of China. In 2018, she was recognized as a Renowned Teaching Expert in Beijing and one of the " Top Ten Young Stars in Nutritional Science in China ". In 2020, she was named as an Outstanding Teacher of Peking University.

She has presided over and completed more than 10 teaching reform projects at national, provincial and ministerial levels, and has won 6 teaching achievement awards. She has edited or participated in editing more than 20 textbooks and works.Her main research areas are early life nutrition and lifelong health, as well as bioactive substances in foods and health. In recent years, she has presided over more than 50 scientific research projects, including key research and development projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, projects of the Beijing Natural Science Foundation, the Doctoral Program Foundation of the Ministry of Education, regional key research and development projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and international projects of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Children's Fund. She has published more than 160 academic papers at home and abroad, won 10 scientific and technological achievement awards, and obtained 3 invention patents.