Xu Tao

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Deputy Director of Guangzhou Laboratory

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the China National Democratic Construction Association, Vice Director of Guangzhou Laboratory.

He is mainly engaged in research on super-resolution imaging technology and ultra-sensitive detection. He has made outstanding achievements in the molecular mechanisms of vesicle secretion regulation, ultra-high resolution microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. In the field of super-resolution imaging technology, he proposed a novel single-molecule interference localization technique and developed a new type of single-molecule interference localization microscope, which can resolve nanoscale subcellular structures. His achievements were selected as one of the Top Ten Advances in Life Sciences in China for 2021. In the field of transmission electron microscopy, he has broken through "bottleneck" technologies and led the development of the first domestically produced field emission transmission electron microscope with independent intellectual property rights.