Education:

Ph. D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
M.S., Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China.
B.S., University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, PR China.

Professional Positions held:

2010-present, Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
2004-2010, Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
2000-2004, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
1997-2000, Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1994-1997, Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

Professional Service:

2008-2009, Member of Nomination Committee, CIG.
2005-2008, Member of Science Steering Committee, CIG.
2001-2004, Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research, American Geophysical Union.
Proposal Review Panal: NASA and NSF.
Reviewer for NSF, NASA, IGPP of LANL, and scientific journals including Science, Nature, JGR, ...

Awards and Honors:

1994-1995, Texaco Prize Postdoc Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.
1997, Visiting Fellowship, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
2001-2006, Packard Fellowship, David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
2002-2007, NSF Career Award, National Science Foundation.
2002-2004, Sloan Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
2006, Excellence in Refereeing, American Geophysical Union.
2007-2008, Faculty Fellowship, CU-Boulder.
2007, Visiting Professor at Oxford Univ., UK.
2014, Fellow of American Geophysical Union.
2014, Agassiz Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University.
2014, Visiting Professor at University of Science and Technology of China.
2014-2015, College Scholar, College of A&S, CU-Boulder.
2015, Visiting Professor at Inst. Physique Globe Paris, France.