Resume

Download pdf version of my CV here (updated November 2024).

Education 🎓

University of Oxford 2018 - 2022

PhD in Zoology

Supervised by Owen Lewis

Peking University 2013 - 2018

BSc in Biological Sciences (honoured)

Rank: 5/123 students, Grade: 89/100

UC Berkeley 2016

Visiting student in Integrated Biology

Courses and Grades: Ecological Genetics: A; Evolution: A+; Host-Pathogen Interaction: A+

👩‍🔬 Postdoc (University of Oxford)

2023 – 2025 (UK)

🌍 Research Intern (The Nature Conservancy, Beijing)

Mar-Aug 2018

Reviewed literature and designed a health assessment framework for small river basins

🌍 Volunteer (The Nature Conservancy, Lijiang)

Feb – Apr 2017

Developed an R package to analyse wildlife monitoring data by the local petrol team in a convenient and standardized way.
Designed and conducted an interview survey of local communities (Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture) to investigate the legacy of previous conservation actions. This work led to new ten-year conservation funding from Ant Forest by Alibaba to the interviewed site.

👩🏻‍🏫 Teaching

Day-to-day supervision or co-supervision for Master of Biology students in 2024 (Natalie Bright), 2023 (Nancie Bowley), and 2022 (Eloise Newman).
Day-to-day supervision or co-supervision for undergraduate research projects in 2024 (Valentino Pallini and Letti Lee), 2020 (Maryam Binti Mohd Hafiz), and 2019 (Julia Cypar and Ellie Jarvis).
Lecturering in "MBiol journal club: analysing and criticising research articles" and "Doctoral Training Centre statistics and data management course".
Teaching assistant in "Programming in R (refresher) course", "Climate envelope model practice", "Mathematical modelling in Biology", and "Genetics".

UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) standard grant (named postdoc) 2023-2025
The Ecological and Evolutionary Legacy of Extreme Climatic Events for Food Web Resilience
Biology Eurofins Foundation through University of Oxford 2022
Research Project Support
The Queen’s College, University of Oxford 2020
Academic Support Grant
Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford 2020
Sponsored place for the “Ecological Survey Techniques” Course
The Queen’s College, University of Oxford 2018
Academic Support Grant
China Oxford Scholarship Fund 2018
Honorary China Oxford Award
Peking University 2018
Excellent Undergraduate Student
Peking University 2016
Jinlongyu Scholarship (rank first)
Peking University 2015
Yang Fuqing Academician Scholarship (rank fifth)

(upcoming) Trait evolution and ecological legacy in host-parasitoid community following a extreme heatwave event (oral talk)
Liverpool, British Ecology Society annual meeting 2024
The formation and impact of novel species interactions under climate change (oral talk)
Shenzhen, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-Sen University 2024
Causes and future drivers of species turnover along elevational gradients (oral talk)
Belfast, British Ecology Society annual meeting 2023
Biological responses to climate change (ECR talk)
London Natural History Museum, The Explorer Programme Summer Social 2022
Heatwave and warming induce distinctive community responses through their interactions with a novel species (oral talk)
Leipzig UFZ & iDiv, Frontiers in Experimental Research on Changing Climate 2022
Geneva, 13th International Congress of Ecology 2022
Parasitoid interaction history and food quality influence heatwave resistance of Drosophila populations (oral talk)
Liverpool, British Ecology Society annual meeting 2021
High temperature structures tropical forest Drosophila communities: evidence from physiological and population level measures (oral talk)
Festival of Ecology, British Ecology Society annual meeting 2020
Biodiversity survey in Chongzuo examined effects of the white-headed langur (Trachypithecus leucocephalus) as a flagship species on habitat conservation (poster)
Duke Kunshan University, Conservation of China’s Tropical Biodiversity 2016