CV
Education
PhD in Ecology. University of Georgia, 2012
Dissertation: Evolutionary history explains distribution and diversity of mammals and their parasites.
Advisors: Dr. John Gittleman & Dr. Sonia Altizer.
MSc in Scientific, Technical & Medical Translation & Translation Technology. Imperial College London, 2007
Dissertation: Translating ecological texts (from English to Chinese)
MSc in Ecology, Evolution & Conservation. Imperial College London, 2006
Dissertation: Macroecology of lizards in North America
Advisors: Dr. Shai Meiri & Dr. Ian Owens
BSc in Biological Science. Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University, 2005
Dissertation: Exploring the protozoan diversity in Tibet soil
Advisor: Dr. Runlin Xu
Previous positions
2019-2022 Postdoc fellow funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG; an Eigene Stelle grant), Senckenberg Biodiversity & Climate Research Centre.
2015-2019 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Senckenberg Biodiversity & Climate Research Centre. Host: Dr. Susanne Fritz
2012-2015 Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago. Advisor: Dr. David Jablonski
Editorial service
Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution (Associate Editor)
Philosophical Transactions of Royal Soceity B: Biological Sciences (Guest Editor for the themed issue of "Infectious disease macroecology: parasite diversity and dynamics across the globe")
Journal reviewer
Diversity & Distributions; Ecography; Ecological Monographs; Ecology; Ecology Letters; Ecosphere; Evolution; Global Ecology & Biogeography; Journal of Animal Ecology; Journal of Biogeography; Journal of Ecology; Nature Communications; Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology; Parasitology Research; PeerJ; PLoS One; Proceedings of the Royal Society B; Science.
(Publons since 2015)Professional society
The American Society of Naturalists
The International Biogeography Society
The Paleontological Society
Additional experience
Summer intern (2011) for Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE)
Medicine patent translator (2007) for ThomsonReuters Corporate, London
For more details, please see my full CV.