Bess is a neuroscientist and psychologist. She completed her PhD specialising in neuropsychology at the University of Hong Kong in 2015. Her PhD thesis on schizophrenia- spectrum disorders was awarded with the Fulbright-Lee Hysan Junior Scholar Prize. Before she joins the department of counseling and psychology at Hong Kong Shue Yan University as the associate professor (and associate head), she worked at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Hong Kong and the Department Rehabilitation Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a research assistant professor. In 2013-2014, she was a visiting scholar at the Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting Fulbright scholar at the Department of Pediatrics of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in the United States. In the past few years, she has had experiences teaching and supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students of various disciplines including psychology, neuroscience, social work, biotechnology, occupational therapy, physical therapy and optometry. Bess’s research focuses on the neural and psychosocial mechanism of social cognition, antisocial behavior, and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, broader autism phenotype and traumatic brain injury as well as the gut microbiome and the brain. She has been engaged in inter-disciplinary research in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Canada, Australia, and the U.S.