Education

 

2018 - Ph.D. Student, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago

 

2013 - 2018 Bachelor of Science - Life Science Major, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan

 

2016 - 2017 Exchange student, University of Melbourne

 

 

Research Experience

 

02/2017– 06/2017 

Internship, the University of Melbourne Herbarium (MELU), Australia

Project: The phylogenetics of New Zealand Poa (Poaceae) based on three molecular markers.

 

01/2016 – 02/2017 

Undergraduate Researcher, Dept. of Life Science, NTU, Taiwan

Project: Character evolution of pollination syndrome and mating system in Aeschynanthus acuminatus (Gesneriaceae)

 

01/2016 – 12/2016 

Student Researcher, College of Life Sciences, NTU, Taiwan

Project: Re-evaluation of phytogeography of Gesneriaceae

 

03/2015 – 12/2015

Undergraduate Summer Internship, Dept. of Life Science, NTU, Taiwan

Project: Evolutionary history of Gcyc genes in Gesneriaceae

 

Grants & Awards

2021 Spring Henry Hinds Fund for Graduate Student Research in Evolutionary Biology, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago

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2021 Nellie D. Sleeth Scholarships, The Gesneriad Society

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01/2018  Oral Presentation Award, Congress of Animal Behavior and Ecology, Hsinchu, Taiwan

 

08/2017  College Student Research Creativity Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan

 

07/2016 – 02/2017 Undergraduate Research Program, Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan) (MOST 105-2815-C-002-099-B)

 

01/2016 – 12/2016 Mr. Cheng, Yu-Bin Memorial Scholarship (for research in plant systematics and phylogenetics), College of Life Sciences, NTU, Taiwan