education
- Advisor: Dr. Yingxue Wang
- International Max Planck Research School fellow
- Working manuscript: Rapid locus coeruleus dopamine shapes CA1 dynamics for time/distance estimation
- Magdalene College
- Jardine Scholar; Bundy Scholarship; College Prize for Natural Sciences; Magdalene Scholar
research experience
I study how phasic locus coeruleus dopamine release tunes hippocampal CA1 dynamics during memory-guided navigation. The project combines virtual-reality behaviour, extracellular recordings, optogenetics, local pharmacology, two-photon dopamine and calcium imaging, Python analysis pipelines, and computational modelling.
Undergraduate thesis on dopamine facilitation of CA3-CA1 behavioural time-scale plasticity. Used whole-cell patch-clamp electrophysiology to study how dopamine changes hippocampal long-term potentiation rules; thesis received a First-Class mark.
Genetics Society Genes and Development Summer Studentship. Studied cathepsin B activity deficits in mouse models of Down syndrome-associated Alzheimer's disease pathology using western blotting and protein activity assays.
publications & preprints
conference presentations
skills
- Programming
- Python, MATLAB; working knowledge of R, Java, and SQL
- Neuroscience techniques
- Extracellular electrophysiology, whole-cell patch-clamp electrophysiology, optogenetics, two-photon imaging, genetically encoded dopamine and calcium sensors, local pharmacology, histology
- Data analysis
- Behavioural analysis, neural time-series analysis, spike-train analysis, two-photon image analysis, generalised linear models, computational modelling, figure generation
- Languages
- Cantonese (native), Mandarin Chinese (native), English (fluent); conversational German and Spanish
awards & fellowships
- International Max Planck Research School fellow, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
- Jardine Scholar, University of Cambridge
- Bundy Scholarship and College Prize for Natural Sciences, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
- Magdalene Scholar, University of Cambridge
- Genes and Development Summer Studentship, Genetics Society
outreach & science communication
Founded and led the Neuro-Frontier (神经前研) section, co-founded the Neuromancing podcast team, and wrote, edited, proofread, and translated authorised science writing from outlets including Quanta, Nautilus, and Aeon.
Wrote weekly news and a print feature on the Accelerating Research on Consciousness (ARC) initiative, interviewing researchers including Anil Seth and Cyriel Pennartz.
Last updated May 2026
