I am an environmental microbiologist who spends a surprising amount of time thinking about bacteria, and the genes they secretly exchange. My research focuses on antimicrobial resistance, wastewater-based epidemiology, microbial genomics, and One Health surveillance. By combining long-read metagenomics, bioinformatics, and environmental monitoring, I try to understand how antibiotic-resistant pathogens move through urban wastewater systems—because even microbes have travel routes.

Education

• University of Copenhagen & Southern University of Science and Technology

  Ph.D. in Biology, Sep. 2016 – Nov. 2017

  Supervisors: Prof. Søren J. Sørensen (UCPH) / Prof. Yu Xia (SUSTech)

• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering and Management, Sep. 2016 – Nov. 2017

  Supervisor: Prof. Guanghao Chen

• Hunan University

  B.Sc. in Environmental Science, Sep. 2012 – June. 2016

  Supervisor: Prof. Binbin Huang

Research interest

• Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
• Nanopore sequencing technology (ONT Sequencing)
• Wastewater-based epidemiology
• Horizontal gene transfer (HGT)
• Plasmids