I was born in a village in Shandong province, which is Confucius homeprovince. I have three brothers and one sister and I am the youngest. When I was a child, I didn't think I would go so far away from parents, while my brothers and sister are stay close. Since I left my village for Qingdao, a beautiful coast city for my bachelor study, I began my moving life.

I studied chemistry and was graduated from Qingdao University in 1993. Then I went to Shandong University for my masterate study in polymer chemistry and physics. After I got my master's degree in 1996, I went to Beijing, and continued my doctoral study at the Institute of Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where I finished my dissertation on the ladderlike polysilsesquioxanes-based LC alignment films.

I went to MC I at Bayreuth University, Germany in Oct 1999. It was a good chance to work under the guidance of Dr. Guenter Lattermann and participated in the special research program SFB481 (Sonderforschungsbereich 481), which was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG (German Research Council). I was responsible for a project A4: orientation behavior of block copolymer with liquid crystalline segment, which is a part of the big program. Cooperated with Dr. Lattermann, we succeeded in the renewal of the project for the second three-year phase. The work experience in Bayreuth is helpful not only to my professional skills but also to my ability to acclimate to a totally new environment and new project.

Life is always moving and changing. I moved from Germany to Canada in Aug 2002, to work in Prof. Yue Zhao's group in University of Sherbrooke and also be a member of CERSIM (Macromolecular Science and Engineering Research Center). I worked on new polymer and liquid-crystal materials that are light-responsive, self-assembled and nano-structured, having potential for diverse applications such as tunable optical devices. I obtained interesting results on these photo-active and self-assembled materials and published them as several papers in Macromolecules, Chemistry of Materials, etc.

Now, I am in IMS, University of Connecticut at Storrs, working on block copolymers with discotic liquid crystal moiety in Prof. Lei Zhu's group. We seek to achieve fundamental understanding of novel nanostructure and morphology in supramolecular columnar liquid crystals (LCs) with immiscible polymer side chains, and to manipulate spontaneous curvature in a microphase-separated single LC column on nanometer length scales for new nanomaterials for nanotechnology.

The world is so amazing, and the more amazing is that people have wisdom to explore the world with surprising and happiness. Life is so amazing, and the more amazing is that we always be a learner in the life. Every day, find something new, experience something new, enjoy something new.