1. 1980, 9 - 1984, 8, Bachelor’s Degree, Department of Physics, Jiangxi University (From 1993, renamed as “Nanchang Umniversity”);
2. 1986, 9 - 1992, 3, Decotr’s Degree, Department of Materials Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing;
3. 1992, 4 - 1994, 4, Postdoc Researcher, Center of Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences;
4. 1994, 5 - 1995, 4, Assistant Professor, Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences；
5. 1995, 5 - 2004, 7, Associate Professor, Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences；
6. 1996, 5 - 1997, 5, Visiting Scholar, Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique des Géomatériaux, Université de Marne la Vallée, France;
7. 2000, 5, - 2001, 5, Visiting Scholar, School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, UK;
8. 2004, 8-present, Professor, Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Main Achievements:

Our main research interests concern the synchrotron radiation techniques (such as XAFS, XRD, SAXS, and DAFS) and their applications in new materials. In the aspect of synchrotron radiation techniques, we designed and constructed the beamline 4B9A for XRD, XAFS, SAXS, DAFS measurements and the beamline 1W2A for SAXS measurements at Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility. In the aspect of application study, we studied the structures of some new materials. For example, the solid solutions: Cu_1-xAu_x, GaAs_xP_1-x, and (Er_xY_1-x)3Al₅O₁₂; the melts: GeO₂, ZnCl₂, RbCl and Rb₂ZnCl₄; the nanomaterials: Sb₂O₃, Sb₂O₅, PbS, g-Fe₂O₃, CeO₂, SiO₂, TiO₂, LaMnO3.12, Au@SiO₂, ZnO:Co and ordered arrays of metal nanowires contained within mesoporous alumina membranes; the biology-related materials: human hair, Bombyx mori silk, PeaT1 protein, cricket tooth, Red pine wood, American pine wood and White ash wood, organic germanium compounds, hemoglobin and so on. We also proposed a FDUC model to describe the local atomic structures of zincblende-type random solid solutions, and a core-shell model to describe the structure of nanoparticles. More than 200 papers have been published in academic journals. We were also awarded the second prize of natural sciences by Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1996, and the second prize of science and technology by the government of Beijing City in 2012.

Recently we have focused on the mechanism of nucleation and growth of nanomaterials. This work is supported by a grant from NSFC.