Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto, August, 2019 – present, Toronto, ON, Canada. Advisor: Xu Chu and Dan Gregory.
Postdoctoral research associate at Rice University, July, 2018 – June, Houston, TX, USA. Advisor: Cin-Ty Lee.
Education
PhD in Earth Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, 2013 – 2018, supervised by Dr. Cin-Ty Lee
MS in Geology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2011-2013, supervised by Dr. Gary Johnson
BS in Geology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 2006-2010, supervised by Dr. Xiumian Hu
Research Experience
Graduate research assistant at Rice University, 2013 – present
Graduate research assistant at Dartmouth College, 2011 – 2013
Undergraduate research assistant at Nanjing University, 2007-2010
Teaching Experience
Teaching assistant at Rice University, 2014 fall
Teaching assistant at Dartmouth College, 2011 – 2013
Awards and Scholarships
Torkild Rieber Award in Earth Science, 2016, Department of Earth Science, Rice University ($2000)
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2015, Department of Earth Science, Rice University ($1000)
Earle S. Lenker ’56 Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, 2013 ($1500)
Public Scholarship, 2007-2009, Nanjing University ($1600)
National Scholarship, 2006-2007, Nanjing University ($1250)
Grants
Geological Society of America Student Grant, 2015-2016 ($1250): “Novel method of rapid in situ U-Pb dating of petrified wood: insights into the timing of fossilization and groundwater flow events”
Geological Society of America Student Grant, 2012-2013 ($1278): “Medial Jurassic-early Late Cretaceous volcanic ash falls in an evolving foreland basin, north central Wyoming”