I was born in Taiwan and now live in Italy and am an Assistant Professor 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.