He finished his PhD in 2007 at Huazhong Agricultural University. Further, he conducted post-doctoral research at the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management, Institute of Zoology (IOZ), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) from 2009 to 2011. In the meantime, he was trained at Rothamsted Research and John Inns Centre, UK, from 2017 to 2018, supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). His team is now focusing on research and application of sustainable forest pest control technologies, which include (1) reproductive behavior in forestry insects; (2) identification and characterization of pheromone, host plant and symbiotic fungus volatiles of the forestry insects by methods of EAG, GC-EAD, GC-MS and wind tunnel Y-tube bioassay under laboratory conditions; (3) field application of semiochemical-derived volatile lures in China; (4) molecular characteristics of candidate chemosensory genes of forestry insects as well as the identification, expression and functional analysis of candidate chemosensory genes (OBP, CSP, OR, GR, IR, SNMP) from defoliator pests and wood borer in the forest.