My research interest lies very much at the technology development end of the biomedical imaging spectrum.

Biography

I was born in Luoyang, an ancient capital of China. I graduated from Xi’an Technological University, China in Optoelectronic Engineering. After that, I studied at the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of Chinese Academy of Sciences for my MSc. in Optical Engineering. At that time I became interested in optical imaging and learned the skills of optical design through the practice of designing several optical remote sensing systems.

When finishing my MSc. degree study, I went to The University of Nottingham,UK to pursue a PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. I worked under the supervision of Professor Mike Somekh, the co-founder of the Institute of Biophysics, Imaging and Optical Science (IBIOS) at the university, who rencently relocated to Hong Kong PolyU. Throughout my PhD studies, I continued my interest in optical imaging and focused on the development of novel super-resolution fluorescence microscopy for biological samples. I developed a wide-field microscopic technique, structured illumination solid immersion fluorescence microscopy (SISIM), to obtain sub-100nm lateral resolution by combining solid immersion lens technique and structured illumination microscopy.

I joined the Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC) research team at The University of Sheffield,UK led by Prof. Neil Hunter FRS in May 2010 as a postdoctoral research associate. Other principal investigators in this project include Dr Ashley Cadby, Dr Luke Wilson (Department of Physics and Astronomy) and Professor Graham Leggett (Department of Chemistry). I currently work on the investigation on the properties and applications of biological light harvesting and reaction centre protein complexes using advanced microscopic and spectroscopic techniques. My lab is situated at Electronic and Photonic Molecular Materials Group (EPMM) in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. This cross-disciplinary programme is funded by a grant from the US Department of Energy. Since August 2014, I continue my research in the same post, but am fully funded by The University of Sheffield.