Hello, welcome! ☀️
I'm Jie, a theoretical ecologist. I am fascinated by how ecological communities respond to changing environments. In particular, I have been working on explaining and predicting changes in the composition of diverse ecological communities, ranging from microbes to plants to animals.
I'm excited to be joining Kevin Foster's group in Oxford as a postdoc this September. I recently completed my PhD in Systems Ecology at MIT under the supervision of Serguei Saavedra.
Thesis Projects
To what extent can we predict invasion outcomes using coexistence knowledge?
To what extent can a suitable neighboring species help a forbidden pair to coexist?
Can we theoretically identify the game-changing species in microbial communities?
What general principle governs the development of biodiversity in ecological communities?
Biography
Research Areas
Theoretical Ecology
Microbiology
Population dynamics
Metabolic scaling theory
Complex systems
Causal inference
Deep learning
Probability theory
Stochastic differential equations
Education
PhD in Systems Ecology
Advisor: Prof. Serguei Saavedra
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPhil in Computational Mathematics
Advisors: Prof. Yanping Lin, Prof. Zhonghua Qiao
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
BSc in Statistics
Zhejiang University
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Contact
Office 1-240, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States