In Brief

I got my PhD at Arizona State University in 2003. Back then it was Department of Physics and Astronomy, but now the Astronomy part has expanded into the School of Earth and Space Exploration.

From 2003 June to 2006 June, I was a postdoc at the Spitzer Science Center . Then I moved two miles to the north to the Carnegie Observatories, and did my second term of postdoc there till 2008 September. After that, I took a long-term (5-year) postdoc position at the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP) at the Ohio State University. In 2011 September, I came to Mizzou as an assistant professor. I was promoted to associate professor in 2016 September.