Education and appointments

2017.10 – Now, Professor & 100 Talent Principal Investigator, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

2013.12 – 2017.9, Postdoctoral Research Associate Fellow, Tennessee State University, USA.

2011.11 -- 2013.11, Assistant professor, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

2005.9 -- 2011.7, M.S. and Ph.D. in Ecology, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

2009.10 -- 2010.6, Visiting Ph.D. student, Tennessee State University, USA.

2001.9 -- 2005.7, B.S. in Biological Science, College of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University.

My current research mainly involves ecosystem stoichiometry, the study of the stoichiometry and relationships of multiple chemical elements of plants, soil and microbes in terrestrial ecosystems at various scales. While this work is primarily ecological in focus, I am particularly interested in linking the element stoichiometry with ecosystem carbon and nutrient cycling, and community structure and stability. I also explore the mechanisms underlying these processes of the interactions between plant and soil, and microbial regulation under global environmental changes.