Employment history

06/2017-present               

Associate professor at the Department of Biology at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China

05/2009-05/2017             

Independent research group leader at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany

10/2005-04/2009             

Research group leader at the Heidelberger Institute for Plant Sciences, Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Germany

06/2003-09/2005             

Postdoc researcher at the Center for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

06/2001-05/2003             

Marie Curie postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

07/1999-12/2000             

Research assistant by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 523, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany

06/1997-04/1998             

Research assistant at the Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany

Education Background

03.05.2001                         

Ph.D. degree in Sciences, awarded summa cum laude at the Georg August University Göttingen, Germany

Thesis: “Biochemical and cell biological characterization of COP vesicle mediated protein transport in plants”

03.11.1997                         

Diploma in Biology, subjects: botany, microbiology and chemistry (equivalent to M.Sc., awarded first class overall) at the Georg August University Göttingen, Germany

Thesis: “In vitro induction of COP vesicles in tobacco”