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


Additional experience


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