My group studies evolution of species interactions. We aim to understand how organisms evolve in multitrophic communities using integrative tools from genomics, molecular biology, chemical ecology and computational models. We also study the evolution of novel traits in plants and insects by integrating evolutionary genetics with single-cell genomics.

Positions held

Since 2022  
W3 Professor, University of Mainz, Germany

2018 – 2022  
W2 Professor (tenured), University of Münster, Germany

2017 – 2018 
ACE postdoc fellow, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

2011 – 2017 
Project group leader, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany

Education

2011 
Doctor of Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

2004-2007 
MSc. in Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

2002-2004 
BSc. Animal Sciences, China Agricultural University, China

2000-2001
Applied Physics, China Agricultural University, China