Education

 

2006-2011        Ph.D., Biophysics, University of Maryland, College Park

                         Advisors: Dietmar Plenz, Rajarshi Roy

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2002-2006        B.S., Physics/Biophysics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

 

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   Professional Experience

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2023-present    Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cell and System Biology, University of California, Riverside

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2016-2023        Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cell and System Biology, University of California, Riverside

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2012-2016        Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of Daniel H. O’Connor, Johns Hopkins University

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2011-2012        Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow, Lab of Dietmar Plenz, National Institutes of Health

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2008-2011        Predoctoral Visiting Fellow, Lab of Dietmar Plenz, National Institutes of Health

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2007                 Graduate Research Assistant, NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology

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2005-2006        Research Assistant, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Lab, Nanjing University

 

2004                 Research Assistant, Ferromagnetism Lab, Nanjing University

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2003-2004        Visiting Student, Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong

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   Honors & Awards

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2018                 Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience

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2018                 UC Regents Faculty Fellowship

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2016                 Paul Ehrlich Young Investigator Award, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

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2014                 Best poster award, Greater Baltimore Society for Neuroscience Chapter

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2008-2011        Intramural Predoctoral Research Training Fellowship, National Institutes of Health

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2006-2007        Chemical Physics and Biophysics Graduate Fellowship, University of Maryland

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2004                 People Scholarship, Nanjing University