• Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Aug 2019

Ph.D. in Agronomy

Dissertation: Measuring Soil Nitrous Oxide Emissions by Using a Novel Open Path Scanning Technique.

• National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan                                                                                                                                                                                           January 2011

B.S. and M.S. in Soil and Environmental Science

M.S. Thesis: Investigations of the Structure and Stability of Interlayer Water in Mg/Al Layer Double Hydroxides (LDHs) Containing CO32-, Cl-, and NO3-.

• National Chung Hsing University, Taichung City, Taiwan                                                                                                                                                                           August 2021-Present

Assistant Professor (Area of Focus: Ecosystem Services and Environmental Management)

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL                                                                                                                                                                                   August 2019-July 2021

Postdoctoral Fellow (Area of Focus: Ecosystem services from a Bioenergy Cropping System)

• Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN                                                                                                                                                                                                                   August 2013-July 2019

Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant (Area of Focus: Gas Fluxes from a Maize Cropping System)

• National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan

Lab Technician and Research Assistant May 2012-June 2013

• Ecosystem services from cropping systems, including

- Fluxes of greenhouse gases (e.g., CH4, N2O, and CO2) and other trace gases (e.g., NH3)

- Improvement of soil health, including soil carbon sequestration, soil aggregation, and biodiversity

- Mitigation of nutrient leaching (NO3-, PO43-)

• Dynamics of soil C and N and other nutrients (e.g., iron and phosphorus) among different soil aggregates and fractions.

• Chemometric methods for FTIR spectroscopy-based gas and soil analyses