Dr. Pengmin Qin is currently affiliated with the Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition, and Education Sciences; the Ministry of Education; the School of Psychology, Center for Studies of Psychological Application; and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University. He completed his Ph.D. studies in cognitive neuroscience at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2009. From 2009 to 2015, he was a postdoctoral fellow in mind, brain imaging, and neuroethics at the University of Ottawa's Institute of Mental Health Research. His research interests are focused on the study of neural mechanisms of self-related processing, patients with mental disorders (schizophrenia, autism), as well as patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC). He has been investigating the levels of consciousness and self-related processing using fMRI, PET, and EEG.