CV

Education

• B.S. in Physics, Nanjing University, 2018
• Ph.D in Physics, jointly appointed by Chemistry department, University of Texas at Austin, 2024 (expected)

Professional experience

• Summer 2019: Research Assistant
  • University of Texas at Ausitn
  • Duties included: Build a homemade Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)
  • Supervisor: Professor Chih-Kang Shih
• 2020 - 2023: Research Assistant
  • University of Texas at Ausitn
  • Duties included: Characterizing the molecular interactions in biological membranes using 2D IR
  • Supervisor: Professor Carlos R. Baiz

Skills

• Spectroscopy techniques:
  • Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR)
  • Two-dimensional infrared (2D IR)
  • Surface Enhanced InfraRed Absorption (SEIRA)
• Languages & Software:
  • MATLAB, Mathematica, Python
  • LabVIEW
  • GROMACS, CHARMM-GUI, Gaussian 16

Presentations

• Poster, Time-resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy (TRVS) 2021
• Oral presentation, General Symposium in Physical Chemistry, ACS Southwest Regional Meeting (SWRM) 2022

Teaching Experience

• PHY 101L. Laboratory for Physics 301. 2018 - 2019
• CH 353. Physical Chemistry. Spring 2021

Awards

• Outstanding Student Award, for top 2% in department, 2016, Nanjing University
• Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2018, UT Austin
• Jim Thompson Graduate Fellowship, 2020, UT Austin

Service and Outreach

• Mentor of Biological Sequence Analysis, Fall 2020, Directed Reading Program of Physics Dept.
• Volunteer, ACS Southwest Regional Meeting (SWRM) 2021
• Volunteer, Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW) 2022