I was born in Taiwan and now live in Italy and am a Tenured Senior Researcher of Applied Linguistics in English, at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies,  the University of Calabria (green stars)

The orange squares show where I lived as a child.  My family lived in Australia, Malaysia, Libya and Malawi, since my father was a diplomat (when a university student heard this, he turned to his friends and said: "poor people... they had to move so her father could get a diploma...")

From Malawi, I went to the USA for university and obtained degrees in Biology and Psychology from Muskingum University in Ohio.  I stayed in Ohio to pursue a PhD in Neurobiology at the Northeastern Ohio Medical University section of Kent State University.  The other red squares in Israel (Weizmann Institute)  and Arizona (University of Arizona) are where I did post-doctoral research in biomedicine.  Then, in my second life as an English teacher, I completed an MA-TEFL at the University of East Anglia in the UK (red squares).