Xinhui An

Dr. Xinhui An is a Researcher at the Institute for Plant Cell Biology and Biotechnology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, focusing on fundamental mechanisms of plant performance optimization through interdisciplinary approaches bridging development, metabolism, and synthetic biology.

Her core research areas include:

• Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis and carbon allocation pathways
• Synthetic and Reconstruction Biology for pathway engineering
• Metabolomics and data-driven modeling of plant systems
• Edaphic adaptation through plant-microbiota metabolic networks

Dr. An's current work reconstructs plant cell wall polysaccharide biosynthesis in cyanobacterial and eukaryotic CO₂-fixing systems to overcome limitations of multicellular plant models, with emphasis on identifying regulatory factors for carbon partitioning. Her methodology integrates theoretical plant biology with advanced imaging and metabolomics platforms.

No scientific awards or student advisement details are documented in the provided materials. Research infrastructure utilization includes the Plant Metabolism and Metabolomics Facility, Imaging Platform, and CEPLAS Data resources for comprehensive plant performance analysis.