Curriculum Vitae

Professor, Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2020–)

Associate Professor, Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015–2020)

Visiting Scholar, Losos Lab, Museum of Comparative Zoology/Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (2016)

Assistant Professor, Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011– 2014)
PhD in Ecology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011)
MS in Ecology, South China Normal University, China (2007)
BS in Biological Science, Sichuan Normal University, China (2004)

Professional Activities

Editorial Board Member, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Associate Editor, Journal of Animal Ecology

Associate Editor, Diversity and Distributions

Editorial Board Member in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology section, Scientific Reports

Editorial Board Member, Asian herpetological research

Editorial Board Member, Chinese Journal of Zoology

Guest Editor: Ecological Applications ("Management of Biological Invasions in China" Special Feature)

Deputy secretary-general of China Zoological Society of Biogeography

Council member of China Zoological Society of Herpetology

Member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Member of International Society of Zoological Science Working Group on Invasive species

Member of International Biogeography Society (IBS)

Member of Ecological Society of China

Member of China Zoological Society

Member of British Ecological Society (BES)

Member of Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR)

Awards

Outstanding member of YIPA, CAS (2019)

Science and YIPA Review for the Science WeChat Official Account (2019)

Young Scientist Award, China Zoological Society (2017)

Top ten best scientific papers of Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN) (2014)

Outstanding young animal ecology scientist of China (2013)

The First-Grade for Di Ao Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011)

Outstanding Graduate Award in research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011)

Merit Graduate Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2010)

Outstanding Presentation Honor, South China Normal University (2005)

The Second-Grade Presentation Honor, South China Normal University (2004)

The Second-Grade Teaching Skills Honor, Sichuan Normal University (2004)

Excellent Undergraduate Leader Scholarship, Sichuan Normal University (2004)

Excellent Undergraduate Scholarship, Sichuan Normal University (2002)

The Third-Prize Undergraduate Scholarship, Sichuan Normal University (2002)

The Third-Prize Undergraduate Scholarship, Sichuan Normal University (2001)

Research Grants

Rapid response of population and life history traits of invasive alien amphibian to habitat fragmentation (2022-2025, PI), Grant from National Natural Science foundation of China

National Youth Talent Support Program, (2021-2023, PI)

Talent Support Program of Youth Innovation Promotion Association from Chinese Academy of Sciences (2020-2022, PI)

National Comprehensive Scientific Survey for Amphibians and Reptiles of Xinjiang, China (2020-2022, PI), Grant from National Science and Technology Foundation

Impact mechanisms of multiple co-occuring invaders on native anuran species (2019-2022, PI), Grant from National Natural Science foundation of China

Biodiversity monitoring program - amphibians at Tianjin Wetland Areas (2018-2027, PI), Grant from National Ministry of Environmental Protection

Mechanism for the influence of propagule pressure and landscape heterogeneity on natural spread of alien invasive species (2016-2019, PI), Grant from National Natural Science foundation of China
Youth Innovation Promotion Association Grant from Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015-2018, PI)
The impact of the invasive American bullfrog to the biotic homogenization of native amphibian community structure and function in Yunnan Province (2013-2015, PI), Grant from National Natural Science foundation of China
Study on the infection of an emerging chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in amphibians in Beijing area (2013-2015, PI), Grant from Beijing Natural Science Foundation

Presentations

2021

Sun Yat-sen University (invited speaker), Alien Species Invasions and Biodiversity Loss

Nanjing University (invited speaker), Prevent Biological Invasions and Protect Biodiversity

2020

Beijing Normal University (invited speaker), Invasion Ecology of Alien Terrestrial Vertebrates

WCH9, University of Otago, New Zealand, (oral presentation), Climate extremes, variability and trade shape assemblage of alien amphibians and reptiles in the Anthropocene

2019

Forum on biosystematics, (invited speaker), Exploring species distributions from biological invasions

China West Normal University, (invited speaker) Linking field work and macroecological models to predict and prevent alien species invasions

Haikou, China, (invited speaker) Invasion Zoogeography of Alien Herpetofauna

2018

Minzu University of China & Ecological Society of Beijing (invited speaker)

Invasion Ecology and Alien Amphibians and Reptiles

Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Invasion process of Alien Herpetofauna

17th Ecological Conference of China

Invasion process of alien herpetofaunal species: Establishment, Spread and Impact

2017

Beijing Forestry University (invited speaker)

Establishment, spread and impact of alien reptiles and amphibians

Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS

Density-dependent antagonistic effect of two global invaders on native anurans

Hangzhou, 3rd International Congress on Biological Invasions

Invasion process of alien reptiles and amphibians

University of Southampton (invited speaker)

Linking field work to macroecological models to predict and prevent aquatic species invasions

2015

Inner Mongolia Normal University, Shanxi Normal University (invited speaker)

Realized upper thermal niches are conserved among herpetofaunal invaders

2014

Guangxi Normal University (plenary speaker)

The invasion process of alien herpetofaunal species

Guangxi Normal University

Oviposition microhabitat selection by invasive bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus) in southwestern China

Henan Normal University, Diet and prey selection of the invasive American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) in southwestern China

Institute of Zoology, CAS

The invasion success of alien herpetofaunal species: establishment, range expansion and climatic niche shift

2013

Harbin Normal University

Spatial scale effect of the role of species richness on the dilution effect of amphibian chytridiomycosis

Central China Normal University

The role of climate, vegetation, introduced hosts, and trade in shaping the global chytridiomycosis pandemic

Ecological Society of Beijing (invited speaker)

What determine the worldwide distributions of the amphibian chytridiomycosis

2012

Shenyang Normal University

The establishment of feral populations and geographical variations in life history of the American bullfrog in China

2010

Guangxi Normal University

Research progress on the American bullfrog invasion ecology in China