Rate My Professor Xiaoyu Shan

Xiaoyu Shan is a Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Biology and Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, working in the laboratory of Dianne Newman. Shan earned a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2023. Shan's research focuses on environmental microbiology and microbial ecology. In 2026, Shan led a study demonstrating that drought conditions drive elevated antibiotic resistance across soils, with findings published in Nature Microbiology. The work was conducted as part of ongoing research in the Newman Lab at Caltech.