🕮 Academic / Research Positions

  • Postdoctoral Researcher (2024.01 – present)
    Advisor: Dr. Lalasia Bialic-Murphy
    Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  • Visiting Scientist (2025.11 – present)
    Advisor: Dr. Lalasia Bialic-Murphy
    Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürich, Switzerland

  • Visiting Scholar (2025.08 – 2025.09)
    Advisor: Prof. Barnabas Daru
    Department of Biology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA

  • Visiting Scholar (2023.07 – 2023.10)
    Advisor: Prof. Hans Cornelissen
    Systems Ecology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • Visiting Student (2021.03 – 2022.03)
    Supervisor: Prof. Amy Angert
    Biodiversity Research Center, University of British Columbia, Canada

📖 Education

  • Ph.D. in Ecology (2018.09 – 2023.07)
    Supervisor: Prof. Jian Zhang
    School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, China

  • M.Sc. in Physical Geography (2015.09 – 2018.07)
    Supervisor: Prof. Shouzhong Li
    School of Geographical Science, Fujian Normal University, China

  • B.Sc. in Geography Science (2011.09 – 2015.07)
    School of Geographical Science, Chizhou University, China

🎖 Grants and Awards

  • Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award, East China Normal University (2023)
  • Excellent Poster Award, The 14th National Conference on Biodiversity Science and Conservation (2022)
  • Best Student Paper Award, The Sino-Ecologists Association Overseas (2022)

🧑‍🏫 Editor board:

  • Forestry research (Junior-Editor; 2025-09-01 - Present)
  • Journal of Plant Ecology (Junior-Editor; 2025-09-15 - Present)

👀 Manuscript Review:

Biological Conservation, Ecology and Evolution, Global Ecology and Biogeography (2), Global Change Biology, Journal of Ecology (2), Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Plants

💬 Conferences and Workshops

  • Presenter, 10th Evolutionary Demography Conference, September 2025, Oxford, UK
  • Presenter, Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, August 2024, Long Beach, USA
  • Presenter, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, July 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Presenter and Poster, The 14th National Conference on Biodiversity Science and Conservation, December 2022, Shanghai, China
  • Participant, The 10th Biennial Conference of the International Biogeography Society, June 2022, Vancouver, Canada
  • Presenter, Seminar on Theory and Practice of Species Interactions, October 2020, Nanchang, China
  • Participant, The Workshop of Integral Projection Models, January 2019, Xishuangbanna, China
  • Participant, The 2nd Summer School on Biodiversity Research Methods: Advances and Frontiers, September 2018, Shanghai, China
  • Poster, The 13th National Conference on Biodiversity Science and Conservation, August 2018, Inner Mongolia, China