2010     Ph.D. Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University

2003     M.S. Department of Geophysics, Peking University, China

2000     B.S. Department of Geophysics, Peking University, China

Research Interests

• Density and elasticity of minerals, rocks, and liquids under planetary interior conditions
• Thermodynamic and transport properties of silicate and metallic liquids at high pressures
• Trace element partitioning between solids and liquids at high pressures
• Theoretical models of equation of state and dynamic properties of liquids at high pressures
• Experimental techniques for high pressure generation and synchrotron application
• Combining material properties with seismological, geodynamic, and geochemical models to constrain the composition, structure, dynamics and evolution of Earth and other planets

Honors and Awards

• Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Student Research Award, American Geophysical Union, 2011
• Elias Loomis Prize for excellence in studies of physics of the earth, Yale University, 2010
• Outstanding Student Paper Award, Mineral and Rock Physics Section, AGU Fall Meeting, 2009
• William Ebenezer Ford Prize for excellence in Mineralogy, Yale University, 2006
• Bateman Fellowship, Yale University, 2003-2005

Invited Talks

• Rice University, Current Research in Earth Science Seminar Series, September 2013
• Paris-Edinburgh Cell Workshop, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, May 2013
• Case Western Reserve University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, January 2013
• University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawai’i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, October 2012
• Keynote Lecture, Joint 2012 COMPRES Annual Meeting and High-Pressure Mineral Physics Seminar-8, Lake Tahoe, CA, July 2012
• AGU 2011 Fall Meeting, MR23C session, December 2011
• High Pressure Synergetic Consortium at the Advanced Photon Source (HPSynC), High Pressure Interest Group Meeting, August 2010
• Peking University, Department of Geophysics, June 2010
• University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Geophysics, June 2010
• University of Michigan, Smith Lecture Series, March 2009
• Princeton University, Solid Earth Lunch Seminar, September 2008
• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia University), Division of Seismology, Geology & Tectonophysics Seminar Series, November 2007

Professional Memberships

• American Geophysical Union (since 2004)
• Mineralogical Society of America (since 2013)
• Geochemical Society (since 2013)