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Github: https://github.com/heche-psb

Web of Science ResearcherID: KHZ-5036-2024

ORCID: 0000-0003-1173-6622

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BIO

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Prof. Dr. Jan de Vries at the Department of Applied Bioinformatics of University of Göttingen, Germany. My research focuses on large-scale phylogenomics and comparative functional genomics analyses to study the molecular basis of plant terrestrialization, particularly through the lens of gene and genome duplication. Before moving to Germany, I have completed my PhD at VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University, Belgium, where I worked on the inference and evolutionary significance of ancient polyploidy in plants. My main research interest is to decipher the genomic underpinnings of plants’ ecology and evolution within a systems biology framework.

Academic Appointments

21st May 2025 – Present | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Göttingen, Germany

Institution: Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen 37077, Germany

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jan de Vries

21st September 2020 – 20th February 2025 | Predoctoral Fellow| Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Institution: VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent 9052, Belgium

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yves Van de Peer

Education

21st September 2020 – 20th February 2025 | Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Institution: VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent 9052, Belgium

Degree: Doctor of Science: Bioinformatics

Topics: Ancient polyploidy, plant evolution, phylogenomics, bioinformatics

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yves Van de Peer

PhD Thesis: Inference and Evolutionary Significance of Ancient Polyploidy in Plants

5th September 2016 – 23rd June 2020 | Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Institution: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.

Degree: Bachelor of Science: Ecology

Topics: Ecology and evolution, transcriptomics, polyploidy

Supervisor: Prof. Ji Yang

Bachelor Thesis: Variation patterns of the key plasticity gene in Alternanthera philoxeroides and its related species