He obtained his PhD in atomic and molecular physics, in 2007 from Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He had his first postdoctoral position at Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany. He moved to the University of Nottingham as a Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellow and then obtained a Nottingham Advanced Research Fellowship. He has been promoted as an assistant professor from May 2016. Visit http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ppzwl/index.html for more details.