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Intro： I am a tenure-track assistant professor in the School of Life Science at Nanjing University. I am an interdisciplinary, problem-oriented conservation biologist, trained in ecology, ornithology, and conservation biology from McGill, Oxford, and Tsinghua Universities. I strive to understand biodiversity patterns and dynamics and how different processes and mechnisms can influence our understanding. Towards this end, I do modelling and empirical research to improve our ability to monitor and estimate biodiversity change. I have also worked on tranforming movement behaviours into long-term populuation persistence based on both wildlife tracking data and experiments in the lab. If you’re a prospective student or postdoc, please also see the opportunities page.

Career: Before Nanjing University, I was a postdoctoral fellow with Andy Gonzalez and Laura Pollock at the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science(QCBS) at the Department of Biology of McGill University. My research there had two major components: theoretical movement ecology (understanding the causes, patterns and mechnisms of organismal movements and their relationship with populaltion dynamics) and connectivity conservation planning (the design of conservation tools to protect connectivity and facilitate movement under global change).

I was a DPhil student under the supervision of Ben Sheldon, Rich Grenyer and Kevin Gaston at the Department of Zoology (now the Department of Biology) of the University of Oxford, where I studied the processes and mechanisms that influence our estimation and understanding of biodiversity, and investigated their implications for biodiversity conservation from multiple scales. In 2018, I graduated from the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University with a MSc degree in Ecology, specialising in species distribution of migratory birds under the supervision of Yali Si.