Employment____________________________________________________________________________________
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (The University of British Columbia) 01.2023-Present
Joint between Prof. Anna Blakney and Prof. Pieter Cullis
· Leading/supporting multi-lab collaborations to design LNPs for extrahepatic delivery of mRNA therapeutics
· Leading/supporting multi-lab collaborations to elucidate the pharmacokinetics of mRNA-LNP vaccines
Scientist (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) 04.2022-11.2022
Doctoral Assistant (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) 09.2017-04.2022
Prof. Francesco Stellacci’s laboratory
Education_______________________________________________________________________________________
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland
Docteur en Sciences in Materials Science 09.2017-04.2022
Thesis: Single-chain nanoparticles for intracellular drug delivery
Advisor: Prof. Francesco Stellacci
Thesis Committee: Profs. Athina Anastasaki, Egbert Willem Meijer, and Darrell J. Irvine
Tsinghua University Beijing, China
B.Eng in Materials Science and Engineering 2011-2016
Bachelor of Business Administration 2013-2016
Core Experiences________________________________________________________________________________
Postdoctoral Researcher at UBC Vancouver, Canada
Leading collaborative research to engineer lipid nanoparticles for extrahepatic mRNA delivery
Improving transfection potency of RNA therapeutics (mRNA, saRNA, circRNA) by investigating lipid-RNA interactions
Studying the relationships of LNP structure-protein corona-biodistribution 2023-Present
Supramolecular Nano-Materials and Interfaces Laboratory (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland
Single-chain nanoparticles (SCNP) for intracellular delivery of biologics 2019-2022
Cellular uptake of SCNP topological isomers 2020-2021
Control and characterize the topology of SCNPs 2019-2021
Surface Characterization of bimetallic nanoparticles via MALDI-TOF 2018-2019
Protein corona on gold nanoparticles 2017-2018
ETH Zurich Zürich, Switzerland
Guest Student in Analytical Chemistry (Advisor: Prof. Renato Zenobi) 2019
The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan
Guest Student in Bioengineering (Advisor: Prof. Horacio Cabral) 2018
University of Oxford Oxford, UK
Guest Student in Materials (Advisor: Prof. Andrew Watt)
Invited/Selected talks____________________________________________________________________________________________
(Invited talk) Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research Conference Stevenson, WA, USA, Jun.2025
Title: Designing Lipid Nanoparticles for RNA therapeutics
(Invited talk) TIDES USA: Oligonucleotide & Peptide Therapeutics. San Diego, CA, USA, May.2025
Title: Novel Design of Self-amplifying RNA and Formulation Challenges of Large RNA Payloads San
(Invited webinar) Invited by Beckman Coulter Online, Apr.2025
Title: Transfection Potency of Lipid Nanoparticles Containing mRNA Depends on Relative Loading Levels
(Rising Star Lecture) CRSingapore2025 Singapore, 2025, Feb.2025
Title: Designing Lipid Nanoparticles for RNA therapeutics
(Trainee Seminar Award) Vancouver RNA club Vancouver, Canada, Sep.2024
Title: Lipid nanoparticle design from mRNA vaccines to therapeutics
(Invited talk) Presentation to Joerg Lahann lab at UMich Online, Jul.2022
(Invited talk) Presentation to Jeremiah Johnson lab at MIT Online, Jul.2022
(Selected talk) EPFL Initiative for Cancer Science and Engineering retreat Lausanne, Switzerland, May.2022
(Invited talk) Presentation to Michael Mitchell lab at UPenn Online, Apr.2022
Leadership________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2025-Present Leading trainee of the research teams of AVENGER aiming at developing next-generation m/saRNA-LNP vaccines
2023-2025 Leading trainee of the research teams funded by Nanomedicine Innovation Network for extrahepatic delivery of mRNA-LNPs (Roles: Communication across seven research labs with distinct backgrounds)
2016-2017Head of class of ~30 students from the School of Materials, Tsinghua University (Roles: Organizing events and activities; Facilitating communication among classmates; Representing class in meetings)
2015-2016Head of class of ~200 students at the School of Economy and Management, Tsinghua University (Roles: Took initiative in class projects; Fund raising; Organizing graduation ceremony)
Teaching___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
PHAR515 (Nanomedicines) UBC, Feb.2025
Guest Lecturer on the topic of mRNA vaccine (~60 graduate students)
ImmunoT MicroCourse (Vaccine and Infectious Diseases) Online, Dec.2024
Guest Lecturer(~40 undergraduate students)
MSE-245 (Soft Matter) EPFL, 2021-2022
Teaching Assistant (~80 graduate students)
Industry 4.0 Business School, Hohai University, 2017
Guest Lecturer (~100 students)
Supervision/Mentoring_____________________________________________________________________________________________
2025/09-2026/04 Gargi Rao (co-supervision with Kevin Fox), Undergraduate Directed Studies, UBC
2025/05-2025/09 Angeline Brasseur (co-supervision with Credo Casmil), Summer Intern from Polytech Nice Sophia
2024/10-2025/04 Elli Chan and Sherinay Mahsut, SUS Mentorship Program, UBC
2023/08-2025/06 Shuangyu Wang, Research Assistant, UBC
Projects: Fractionation of lipid nanoparticles | Endosomal escape of lipid nanoparticles
2023/06-2024/03 Melody Cheng, Undergraduate Honor Thesis, UBC
Project: Sequential assembly of lipid nanoparticles
2021/01-2021/07 Arthur Eliot Bouchez, Master Student, EPFL
Project: Ligand functionalized single chain nanoparticles for intracellular drug delivery
2021/04-2021/08 Tina Torabi, Summer Intern, EPFL
2020/06-2021/02 Laura Cabizzosu, Master Student, EPFL
Project: Drug Loading into single chain nanoparticles
2019/01-2019/06 Jiaying Hou, Master Student, EPFL
Project: Surface ratio of alloy nanoparticles characterized via MALDI-TOF
2018/12-2019/05 Edgar Smit, Bachelor Student, EPFL
Project: Surface composition evolution of gold and silver alloy nanoparticles
2018/07-2019/01 Océane Fort, Master Student, EPFL
Project: Single-chain polymer nanoparticle synthesis
2018/01-2018/06 Jingwen Wang (co-supervision with Dr. Zhi Luo), Master Student, EPFL
Project: Temperature and pH responsive single chain polymeric nanoparticle
2016/05-2017/05 Yusen Zhao and Jie Ren, Tsinghua University
Project: Draw-spinning of polymer fibers
Presentations __________________________________________________________________________________________________
(6 invited talks; 6 selected talks; 10 posters)
1. (Oral presentation) Vancouver Area Mass Spectrometry Vancouver, Canada, Nov.2025
2. (Oral presentation) MSL Seminar Series Vancouver, Canada, Sep.2025
3. (Poster) Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Annual Meeting Vancouver, Canada, Jun.2025
4. (Invited talk) Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research Conference Stevenson, WA, USA, Jun.2025
5. (Oral presentation) Diabetes & Obesity Research Day 2025 Kelowna, Canada, May.2025
6. (Invited talk) TIDES USA: Oligonucleotide & Peptide Therapeutics San Diego, CA, USA, May.2025
7. (Invited webinar) Invited by Beckman Coulter Online, Apr.2025
8. (Rising Star Lecture) CRSingapore2025 Singapore, Feb.2025
9. (Trainee Seminar Award) Vancouver RNA club Vancouver, Canada, Sep.2024
10. (Top Poster Award) Control Release Society 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo Bologna, Italy, Jul.2024
11. (Participation) XRay Diffraction & Scattering Summer School in the Canadian Light Source Saskatoon, Canada, Jun.2024
12. (Poster) Nanomedicine Innovation Network 2024 Research Conference Vancouver, Canada, Jan.2024
13. (Poster Judging) Vancouver Nanomedicine Day 2023 Vancouver, Canada, Nov.2023
14. (Poster) International School of Materials for Sustainable Development & Energy Erice, Italy, Jul.2022
15. (Poster) Gordon Research Conference Bioinspired Materials Les Diablerets, Switzerland, Jun.2022
16. (Invited talk) Presentation to Joerg Lahann lab at UMich Online, Jul.2022
17. (Invited talk) Presentation to Jeremiah Johnson lab at MIT Online, Jul.2022
18. (Selected talk) EPFL Initiative for Cancer Science and Engineering retreat Lausanne, Switzerland, May.2022
19. (Invited talk) Presentation to Michael Mitchell lab at UPenn Online, Apr.2022
20. (Poster) EDMX research day at EPFL Online, Feb.2021
21. (Pitch talk and poster) EDMX research day at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, Nov.2019
22. (Poster) Bioinspired Materials: from understanding, through processing, to replication Monte Verità, Switzerland, Oct.2019
23. (Poster) FEBS workshop: Hydrodynamic and thermodynamic analysis Prague, Czech Republic, Sep.2018
24. (Poster) CCMX workshop Nanoparticles: from Fundamentals to applications in Life Science Kandersteg, Switzerland, Jan.2018
Outreach/Service___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
(Event Facilitator) UBC LSI Postdoc Breakfast Social Vancouver, Canada, Mar.2025
(Workshop Facilitator) UBC Postdoc Industry and Entrepreneurship workshops Vancouver, Canada, Nov.2024-Jan.2025
(3rd place) UBC Postdoc 3-min Slam Vancouver, Canada, Sep.2024
(Science Slam Presenter) Science Slam Canada: Slam into Fall Vancouver, Canada, Sep.2024
Representative for postdoctoral fellows at LSI Executive Committee Vancouver, Canada, May.2025-Present
UBC Michael Smith Laboratories Postdoc Committee Vancouver, Canada, May.2025-Present
(co-reviewer of journal articles) Nature Communication; Journal of Controlled Release; Small
Professional Societies______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Controlled Release Society 2024-Present
RNA Society 2025-Present