肖艳，2012年1月在中国科学院水生生物研究所获博士学位。2012年4月至今，在中国科学院重庆绿色智能技术研究院工作，聚焦藻类生物学与地球科学的前沿交叉方向，开展变化环境下藻类适应性策略与生源要素循环互馈的微观机制与宏观效应方面的研究。2018年入选中科院“青年创新促进会”。 

环境生物学 

2018年，中国科学院“青年创新促进会”； 

2019年，中国科学院重庆研究院优秀员工

1.Yan Xiao^#, Yuran Cheng^#, Pan He, Xinghua Wu, Zhe Li*. New insights into external layers of cyanobacteria and microalgae based on multiscale analysis of AFM force-distance curves. Science of the Total Environment. 2021, 774: 145680.   

2.Yan Xiao, Lingxin Liu, Zhe Li*, Yuran Cheng. The role of cyanobacterial external layers in mass transfer: evidence from temperature shock experiments by noninvasive microtest technology. Microorganisms. 2020, 8(6): 861.   

3.Shuqing Zhang, Yan Xiao*, Zhe Li, Shu Wang, Jinsong Guo, Lunhui Lu. Turbulence exerts nutrients uptake and assimilation of bloom-forming Dolichospermum through modulating morphological traits: Field and chemostat culture studies. Science of the Total Environment. 2019, 671: 329-338.   

4.Yan Xiao, Shuqing Zhang, Zhe Li*, Xinghua Wu, Shu Wang, Jinsong Guo. Turbulent mixing mediates the photosynthetic activities and biochemical composition of Anabaena: implications for bioengineering. Journal of Applied Phycology. 2018, 30(4): 2227-2236.   

5.Ping Zhang, Yan Xiao*, Zhe Li*, Jinsong Guo, Lunhui Lu. Microalgae in microwell arrays exhibit differences with those in flasks: evidence from growth rate, cellular carotenoid, and oxygen production. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2018, 8: 2251.   

6.Yan Xiao, Zhe Li*, Chao Li, Zhen Zhang, Jinsong Guo. Effect of small-scale turbulence on the physiology and morphology of two bloom-forming cyanobacteria. PLoS One. 2016, 11(12): e0168925.   

7.Yan Xiao, Zhe Li*, Jinsong Guo, Jing Liu, Yang Huang. Cyanobacteria in a tributary backwater area in the Three Gorges Reservoir, China. Inland Waters. 2016, 6: 77-88.   

8.Yan Xiao, Zhe Li*, Jinsong Guo, Fang Fang, Val H. Smith. Succession of phytoplankton assemblages in response to large-scale reservoir operation: a case study in a tributary of the Three Gorges Reservoir, China. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 2016, 188(3):153.   

9.Nanqin Gan^#, Yan Xiao^#, Lin Zhu, Zhongxing Wu, Jin Liu, Chenlin Hu, Lirong Song*. The role of microcystins in maintaining colonies of bloom-forming Microcystis spp. Environmental Microbiology. 2012, 14(3): 730-742.   

10.Yan Xiao, Nanqin Gan, Jin Liu, Lingling Zheng, Lirong Song*. Heterogeneity of buoyancy in response to light between two buoyant types of cyanobacterium Microcystis. Hydrobiologia. 2012, 679(1): 297–311. 

1.2020/01-2023/12，国家自然科学基金委面上项目，水动力条件下蓝藻产毒与形态建成的适应性策略研究（51979262），61万元，排名第一，主持。   

2.2018/01-2021/12，国家自然科学基金委面上项目，三峡库区水华蓝藻营养物吸收的胶被作用机理研究（51779240），60万元，排名第一，主持。   

3.2018/01-2021/12，中科院青年创新促进会人才计划，科发人函字〔2017〕88号，80万元，排名第一，主持。   

4.2014/01-2016/12，国家自然科学基金委青年科学基金项目，三峡库区水位脉动条件下两种水华蓝藻碳磷营养策略研究（51309220），25万元，排名第一，主持。   

5.2017/01-2018/12，水利部黄河泥沙重点实验室开放基金，小浪底库区水体中泥沙对藻类碳策略影响研究，6万元，排名第一，主持。