| 07.2020 – present | Chair, Division of Natural and Applies Sciences, Duke Kunshan University, China |
| 07.2019 – present | Associate professor of physics, Division of Natural and Applies Sciences, Duke Kunshan University, China |
| | ‘Zweitmitglied’, Bayreuth University, Germany |
| 06.2015 – 06.2019 | Leader of the sand group (Akademischer Oberrat), Experimentalphysik V, Bayreuth University, Germany |
| 01.2015 – 06.2019 | Privatdozent at Bayreuth University |
| 11.2014 | Habilitation in Physics |
| 10.2014 – 12.2014 | Parental leave |
| 05.2009 – 06.2015 | Leader of the sand group (Akademischer Rat), Experimentalphysik V, Bayreuth University, Germany |
| 05.2006 – 04.2009 | Post-doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-organization, Goettingen, Germany. Topic: Dynamics of wet granular matter |
| 09.2001 – 05.2006 | PhD, Physical Acoustics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. Topic: Transport and wave phenomena of granular materials |
| 09.1996 – 07.2000 | BS, Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China |