Academic History
2000-2006 Ph.D., Dept. of Neurobiology, Duke University
1996-2000 BS, School of life sciences, Peking University
Positions
2020- Boya Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University
2012- Principal Investigator, PKU-THU Center for Life Sciences
IDG/McGovern Institute For Brain Research
2019-2020 Associate Professor (tenured), School of Life Sciences, Peking University
2012-2019 Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University
2006-2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University
Professional Experience
2023- Advisory board, Neuron
2023- Executive council member, Chinese Neuroscience Society
2021-2024 Program committee member - Subcommittee Vice Chair (Theme I: Techniques), Society for Neuroscience
2022- Editor, National Science Review
2019- Editor, Journal of Neurochemistry
Awards, and Honors
2023 Research was selected into the Top Ten Progress of Life Sciences in China
2023 Bayer China Academic Collaboration Award 2022 --Investigator Award
2023 New Cornerstone Science Lab investigator
2019 The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
2019 "Xplorer Prize", Tencent Foundation
2019 The 12th "Tan Jiazhen Life Science Innovation Award"
2019 Xiangtong Zhang Young Scientist Award in Neuroscience
2019 The 20th Wu Jieping – Paul Janssen Medical & Pharmaceutical Award
2019 "Excellence in Teaching" award, School of Life Sciences, Peking University
2018 Research was selected into the Top Ten Progress of Life Sciences in China
2018 Research was selected into the Top Ten News of Medical Science and Technology in China
2018 VCANBIO Award for Innovations and Breakthrough in Life Sciences and Medicine
2018 PKU & Boehringer-Ingelheim Faculty Research Award
2015 "Green Leaf Eminent Young Scholar" Fellowship, Luye Pharma Group Co.,Ltd
2015 "Excellence in Teaching" award, School of Life Sciences, Peking University
2013 Junior faculty teaching awards, Peking University, Beijing
Teaching experience
2023 Organizer Cold Spring Harbor Asia | Modern Techniques in Neuroscience: Probes, Detections and Discoveries
2013- Director Undergraduate Hornors Program in Biology