Biography

My research interests lie in using geochemical tools, especially isotopic tools, to explore Earth's history and evolution, and most excitingly, to answer those fundamental yet unresolved questions about our planet's past. What draws me to Earth sciences is how it balances romance with rigor: we ask sweeping questions about how Earth became habitable over millions and billions of years, and then we chase them down through meticulous measurements like isotopic analysis. That tension between grand vision and precise evidence is what I find most compelling.As an undergraduate, I worked on reconstructing the end-Permian mass extinction using zinc isotopes. For my PhD at Cambridge, I will focus on the geodynamics of the early Earth and investigate how the deep carbon cycle regulates climate change over geological timescales. Joining the Gates community, I look forward to becoming a geochemist with an interdisciplinary vision and to contributing a geochemist's perspective to conversations that matter for the planet.

Previous Education

Tianjin University Geographical Science 2026