Intro

I am an interdisciplinary biomedical researcher. My academic and clinical training spans medicine, stem cell biology, and translational research. Through clinical practice, disease modeling with organoids, and genomics-driven projects, I have developed a multidisciplinary perspective on how complex diseases emerge, progress, and diversify.

These experiences have shaped my interest in leading and contributing to biomedical research that integrates experimental platforms, molecular genetics, and evolutionary thinking.

In particular, my interests center on:

1. Project Management and Research Coordination
2. Stem Cell Biology
3. Molecular Genetics and Genomics
4. Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Biology

I completed my PhD at ULB Center for Diabetes Research under the supervision of Prof Miriam Cnop, where my work focused on disease mechanism discovery using stem cell- and organoid-based models in a translational research setting.

I graduated in 2020 with my medical degree from The Second Xiangya Hospital,Central South University, where I was advised by Prof Zhiguang Zhou (周智广). Though being trained as a physician, however, my medical education has cultivated my keen interest in basic research of disease mechanisms.

Leveraging clinical and omics resources, my PhD work utilizes iPSC-derived islets to understand disease mechanisms in a variant-specific model that replicates β cell phenotype seen in individuals with rare SNP-associated and monogenic diabetes.

Meanwhile, I've been very lucky to be able to actively participate and been extensively exposed to and got hands-on experiences with both bioinformatics and phylogenetic studies during the past years. Currently, I based in the United Kingdom, working with Dr Bingxin Lu (卢冰心) and Dr Ruolin Wu (吴若琳) on "Reconstructing Evolutionary dynamics of Copy number Alterations from Multiple samples across cancer types".

I Like

• Climbing and/or Bouldering (Always rethinking)
• Hiking (Lite version.)
• Fossil hunting (Usually find Belemnoidea instead of Ammonoidea.)
• Star gazing (I've seen the most beautiful Venus.)
• Procreate (I know how to draw an Ichthyosauria.)
• Podcasts: 凡事不烦, 天才捕手FM, 博物志, among others.
• Series: Person of Interest beyonds everything.
• Things that I am ignorant about.

Extras

• My stage/cafeteria name is "Bagel", but that hardly work in Brussels, so I adopted "Iris".
• I have a Podcast 七小时后 for bedtime stories.
• This website is an extended version of my CV, so you need to read more.