Employment Aug/2016– Associate Professor (Level I), Leader of the Colloidal Assembly Group Frontier Institute of Science and Technology,Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Sept/2015–Aug/2016 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford, UK Sept/2013–Aug/2015 Marie-Curie Fellow, University of Oxford, UK Sept/2012–Aug/2013 Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California Santa Barbara, US Nov/2010–Aug/2012 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US Dec/2008–Oct/2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Australian National University, Australia Education Sept/2002–Nov/2008 PhD (Soft Condensed Matter Physics), Department of Physics, McGill University, Canada Sept/1998–Jul/2002 B.Sc. (Condensed Matter Physics), Department of Physics, JiLin University, China