Professional Appointments:
2018 - present
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto
2016 - 2017
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University
2015 - 2016
Visiting Lecturer
State University of New York, Fredonia
Education:
Ph.D. - Geology and Geophysics, 2015
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Thesis research: Metamorphic phase equilibria and diffusion kinetics, and applications to the Taconic-Acadian orogenic belts in New England.
M.Phil. - Geology and Geophysics, 2011
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
B.Sc. - Geology, 2009
Peking University, Beijing, China
Senior research: petrology of aegerine-augite elcogite from Southwestern Tianshan, China
grants & awards
NSERC Discovery Grant, 2018-2023
Open Project, State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution Open Grant, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2018-2020
Philip M. Orville Price in recognition of outstanding research in the Earth Science, Yale University, 2016
GSA Annual Meeting Student Travel Award, Geological Society of America, 2013
William E. Ford Prize to distinguished graduate student in Mineralogy, Yale University, 2012.
Frederick C. Stanley Fellowship in Mineralogy, Yale University, 2011-2012.
Excellence Award for Graduation, Peking University, 2009.
Teaching experience
University of Toronto
ESS323 Metamorphic Petrology, Winter 2022
ESS322 Igneous Petrology, Winter 2021
ESS3104 Geochemistry, Winter 2021
ESS222 Petrology, Winter 2019, 2020
ESS330/ESS234/ERS325 Introduction to Geological Field Methods, Summer 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
SUNY Fredonia (2015-2016)
GEO431/480 Geochemistry, Spring 2016
GEO421 Petrology, Spring 2016
GEO165 Geology I: Planet Earth, Spring 2016
GEO215 Minerals and Rocks, Fall 2015
GEO411 Mineralogy, Fall 2015