About

I am a global ecologist focusing on global ecosystem functions and structures. My study mainly uses computational and quantitative approaches to understand general patterns and their variations along spatial covariate gradients. Using big data and statistical models, my research tends to find agreements between mechanisms concluded from small scale experiments and patterns generated from broad scale observations. 

I am now a postdoc at the dynamic macroecology group in WSL, led by Prof. Niklaus E. Zimmermann. I gained my PhD under the guidance of Prof. Thomas Crowther and Dr. Constantin Zohner at the Crowther Lab, ETH Zurich. I was trained as a comprehensive biologist in my undergraduate studies at Nanjing University, China. Getting to know primers of ecology there and helped by Prof. Chi Xu, I moved forward into this field and enrolled in a master program at D-BIOL, ETH Zurich. My academic background drives me to be interested in finding spatially  ecological signals that deserve further and deeper understandings.