Xiu is a researcher on the CAPACITIE project, her focus is to establish the needs of end-users (i.e. regulators and policy-makers) in the use of environmental monitoring data. Xiu has experience in energy and sustainability business and research. She worked for six months at UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) Beijing office as a project assistant, and for more than two years as a starting consultant at DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability (now DNV GL Energy), headquartered in Arnhem, the Netherlands.