Education
| 2011–2016 |
Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University (PKU) & National Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS), Beijing, China |
| 2006–2010 |
B.S., Biology, Nankai University (NKU), Tianjin, China |
Positions
| 2021– |
Assistant Investigator, Chinese Institute for Brain Research (CIBR), Beijing |
| 2016–2021 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program (NIDA-IRP), Baltimore, MD, Geoffrey Schoenbaum Lab |
| 2011–2016 |
Ph.D. Student, PKU & NIBS, Beijing, China, Minmin Luo lab |
| 2010–2011 |
Technician, NIBS, Beijing, China, Minmin Luo lab |
| 2009–2010 |
Undergraduate Researcher, NKU, Tianjin, China, Qingqiu Gong Lab |
| 2008–2009 |
Undergraduate Researcher, NKU, Tianjin, China, Bai Gang Lab |
Grants
| 2022–2027 |
China Brain Project (Program for Young Scientists)
Ministry of Science and Technology |
| 2021–2024 |
Beijing Nova Program of Science and Technology
Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission |
| 2021– |
Intramural funding by Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing |
| 2020–2021 |
K99/R00 (DA049888), “Cognitive map representations by orbitofrontal cortex and hippocampus”. |
Honors and Awards
| 2015 |
The First Prize of Heng-Yuan-Xiang Award |
| 2015 |
Merit Student, PKU |
| 2015 |
Academic Innovation Award, PKU |
| 2015 |
China National Scholarship |
| 2014 |
Academic Innovation Award, PKU |
| 2014 |
Special Award for Excellent Outstanding Students, College of Life Sciences, PKU |
| 2014 |
Excellent Students Award for the PTN program, NIBS, Beijing |
| 2014 |
Excellent Students Award, NIBS, Beijing |
| 2013 |
China National Scholarship |
| 2013 |
Excellent Students Award, NIBS, Beijing |
| 2013 |
Proteintech Academic Award, College of Life Sciences, PKU |
Ad-Hoc Reviewer or Co-Reviewer
Cell, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Nature Communications, Current Biology, eLife, Journal of Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Learning and Memory, PLOS One, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, eNeuro
Teaching and Mentorship
| 2021–present |
Mentoring PhD students Huixin Lin, Fengjun Ma, and Qianru Zhang at CIBR, Beijing |
| 2021–present |
Mentoring research assistants Lingwei Zhang and Aixia Song at CIBR, Beijing |
| 2019–2021 |
Mentoring postdoctoral fellow Wenhui Zong at NIDA-IRP |
| 2019 |
Teaching “In Vivo Electrophysiology” at NIDA-IRP |
| 2018 |
Mentoring postbaccalaureate Marlian Montesinos at NIDA-IRP |
| 2015–2016 |
Teaching Practice (160 hours) at NIBS |
| 2013 |
Teaching “Birdsong Learning and Underlying Neural Mechanism” as a part of the course “Neural Circuits” at Tsinghua University. |
Invited Talks and Poster Presentations
| 2022 |
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS |
| 2022 |
Tsinghua University Department of Electrical Engineering |
| 2021 |
Annual Meeting of Chinese Neuroscience Society |
| 2021 |
CIBR-CLS-IDG Summer Camp |
| 2021 |
NIDA Fellows Research Lunch Meeting |
| 2021 |
Representational Learning Journal Club at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development |
| 2021 |
NIDA IRP "Science for Nonscientists" Seminar Series |
| 2021 |
MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences |
| 2020 |
Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 2020 |
Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh |
| 2019 |
Society for Neuroscience, nanosymposium |
| 2019 |
NIDA Fellows Research Lunch Meeting |
| 2019 |
Winter Conference on Brain Research (poster) |
| 2018 |
Society for Neuroscience, nanosymposium |
| 2018 |
Chesapeake Area Memory and Learning (CAMAL) Meeting |
| 2018 |
NIDA Fellows Research Lunch Meeting |
| 2018 |
Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) workshop |
| 2018 |
Johns Hopkins Department of Neuroscience Lab Lunch |
| 2018 |
NIDA IRP Cellular Neurobiology Research Branch Meeting |
| 2017 |
Society for Neuroscience, nanosymposium |
| 2017 |
Pavlovian Society Annual Meeting (poster) |
| 2015 |
Society for Neuroscience (poster) |
| 2014 |
Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference (poster) |
| 2013 |
Chinese Neuroscience Society (poster) |