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Xinfang Xu was born in Zhejiang Province, China. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from East China Normal University in 2005 and his PhD in Organic Chemistry from the same university, where he worked under the direction of Professor Liping Yang (2005–2006) and Wenhao Hu (2006–2010) on cooperative-catalysed asymmetric multicomponent reactions. After graduation, Dr Xu joined Professor Doyle's research group at the University of Maryland (at College Park). His current research interest is the development of asymmetric cycloaddition reactions.

Michael P. Doyle is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul (MN, USA) and his PhD from Iowa State University. Following a postdoctoral engagement at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Professor Doyle joined the faculty at Hope College in 1968 and was appointed the first Kenneth Herrick Professor in 1982. In 1984, he moved to Trinity University (San Antonio, TX, USA) as the Dr. D. R. Semmes Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, and in 1997 he went to Tucson (AZ, USA) as Vice President, then President, of Research Corporation and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Arizona. Professor Doyle moved to the University of Maryland in 2003. He has been the recipient of numerous national awards, including the George C. Pimentel Award for Chemical Education (2002) and the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2006) from the American Chemical Society. He has written or co-authored 11 books, 22 book chapters, and is the co-author of more than 330 journal publications.