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Employment

• Postdoctoral Associate, Princeton 2024 - now
  • Advisor: Gautam Reddy
• KITP Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Barbara 2021 – 2024
  • Advisor: Boris Shraiman

Education

• Ph.D., Physics, Boston College, 2014 – 2021
  • Advisor: Pankaj Mehta
  • Thesis title: Statistical mechanics of microbiomes
• M.S., Physics, Universität Bonn, 2011 – 2014
  • Advisor: Thomas Nattermann
  • Thesis title: A variational study of two and three-dimensional melting
• B.S., Astrophysics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2007 – 2011
  • Advisor: Yang Zhang
  • Thesis title: Transient accelerating scalar models with exponential potentials

Awards & Honors

• 2019 Best poster award, The Future of Quantitative Biology Symposium, Harvard University
• 2011 Bonn and Cologne Graduate Scholarship, Universität Bonn
• 2011 Bonn International Graduate Scholarship, Universität Bonn
• 2010 National Astronomical Observatories Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Science