since 09/2017
Postdoc at the Institute of Geography, Georg-August-University, Göttingen
Research topic "Acidification, podzolization and resulting silicon pools in soils as affected by varying loess admixture in a central German sandstone landscape" (Host professor: Prof. Dr. Daniela Sauer)

09/2011 - 07/2017
PhD at the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
title of thesis "Pedogenic and functional soil evolution in typical litho-topo-sequences in the upper reaches of the Heihe River Basin" (Supervised by Prof. Gan-Lin Zhang)

09/2007 - 07/2011
B.Sc. in Agricultural resources and environments
Shandong Agricultural University.