Xuedan Ma is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering. She is also a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory. Xuedan received her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry form University of Hamburg in Germany in 2011. She served as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories from 2012 to 2016.

In 2016, Xuedan joined the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory as an Assistant Scientist, and was promoted to Scientist in 2021. Between 2018-2021 and 2021-2024, she also held a Scientist and Senior Scientist position at the University of Chicago through the Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering. She is a Fellow of the Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering from 2017.