Education
1984.09-1988.07: BS of Science, Major: Genetics, Department of Biology, Wuhan University
1988.09-1991.02: MS of Science, Major: Plant Ecology, Department of Biology, Wuhan University
1992.08-1995.10: PhD, Major: Hydrobiology, Institute of Hydrobiology, CAS
Professional career
1991.03-1993.11: Research assistant, Department of Plant Systematics and Ecology Wuhan Institute of Botany, CAS.
1993.12-1997.10: Associate Research professor and Academy secretary, Laboratory of Plant Computational Biology, Wuahn Institute of Botany, CAS
1997.11-1998.09: Associate Research professor and Director, Department of Aquatic Plant Biology, Wuhan Institute of Botany, CAS
1998.11-Present: Research professor and Director, Laboratory of Aquatic Plant Biology, Wuhan Institute of Botany (Now Wuahn Botanical Garden), CAS
2008.12-Present Director, Hubei Key Laboratory of Wetland Evolution & Ecological Restoration
2008.12-Present Vice director, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, CAS
2010.12-Present Director, Technical Innovation Base for Wetland Ecological Restoration & Scientific Management
1997.11-1998.11: Senior visiting scholarship, Institute of Freshwater Ecology at Windermere, NERC, UK
2001.08-2001.11: Senior visiting scholarship,Center for Ecology & Hydrology at Windermere, NERC, UK
2007.04-2007.05: Senior visiting scholarship, National Environmental Research Institute (NERI) at University of Arhus, Demark
Conservation biology of aquatic and wetland plants with special emphasis on the tempo-spatial patterns of genetic diversity and population dynamics in natural and restored environments.
Ecology of aquatic and wetland plants with special emphasis on their responses to environmental stresses form physiological to population levels.
Restoration of macrophytes in degraded lake ecosystems.
