• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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