From 2008 to 2009, he worked as an associate researcher at the Seed Repository of Kunming Institute of Botany. Between 2009 and 2011, he has conducted his postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany. From September, 2011 until now, he has been an associate professor at the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University and dedicated himself to the research on the regulatory mechanism of pre-RNA splicing in the filamentous fungus and on the interaction between plant pathogenic fungi and plants, publishing over 14 articles on international journals including PLoS Genetics, Scientific Reports, BMC Genetics, Frontiers in Plant Science, BMC Genetics and PLOS One.