About me

I’m a currently NASA Postdoctoral Scholar at the Pennsylvania State University.

I am excited about isotope geochemistry, data analysis, and critical thinking. My research focuses on deciphering surface processes using various geochemical proxies.

Apart from doing research🧐🧪🔬💻, you can find me engaged in various outdoor🥾🏔️🛶🏋🏀 and indoor🎥🎮🥘 activities.

Research Experience

• Postdoctoral Scholar
  • The Pennsylvania State University
  • 09/01/2025 - now
  • Research project:
    1. discriminate abiotic and biogenic methyl groups via clumped isotopologues
• Postdoctoral Fellow
  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • 08/01/2022 - 08/31/2025
  • Research projects:
    1. Modernizing the Phanerozoic paleosol-derived CO₂ records
    2. Joint Proxy Inversion (JPI) of a paleosol-based Proxy System Model (PSM)
    3. Miocene-Pliocene rainfall seasonality and C4 expansion over East Asia
    4. Soil gas diffusion and carbonate formation in Vertisols
    5. Bayesian inversion of land snail proxy system model
    6. Standard operating protocol of acid pre-analysis treatment for high-carbonate paleosol samples
• Yuxiu Young Scholar Program postdoctoral fellow
  • Nanjing University
  • 09/01/2020 - 07/31/2022
  • Research projects:
    1. Explored ¹³C/¹²C fractionation related to soil organic matter decomposition
    2. Determined the seasonality of soil carbonate from the Chinese Loess Plateau across the Quaternary glacial cycles

Education

• Ph.D. in Geology
  • School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
  • 09/01/2013 - 06/22/2020
  • Research projects:
    1. Reconstructing Pleistocene atmospheric CO₂ levels using paleosols from the Chinese Loess Plateau
    2. Identifying the signal of atmospheric CO₂ levels in pedogenic carbonates from the Chinese Loess Plateau
• B.Sc in Geology
  • School of Earth Sciences, Jilin University
  • 09/01/2008 - 06/30/2012