She is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Duke Kunshan University. Her research focuses on how plants and microalgae cope with environmental stresses to enhance crop resilience and develop sustainable biomaterial solutions. She is particularly interested in stress-responsive cellular mechanisms, the dynamics of intracellular compartments under heat, drought, and pathogen challenges, and the envirogenomics of microalgae. Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include Genetics and Evolution, Global Change Biology, Advanced Topics in Cellular and Molecular Biology, and Experimental Molecular Biology, reflecting her work in genome-engineering–based improvement of stress-resilient crops and microalgal biomaterials.

She has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals such as Nature Plants, The Plant Cell, Plant Journal, and Plant Physiology, and holds over 20 international patents registered in the United States and Europe. Her research has been supported by competitive grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, an international collaborative grant, as well as multiple regional talent awards.

She earned her Ph.D. in Biology from Yonsei University, where she continued her academic career as a postdoctoral researcher and later a research professor. Before joining Duke Kunshan University, she also served as a research associate professor at the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.