He received his Ph.D. degree from Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007. After the postdoctoral appointments at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany, 2007-2009) and University of Delaware (USA, 2009-2012), he started his independent academic career as a NMR scientist at the University of Delaware in 2012. His current research interest focuses on the developments of solid-state NMR methodology and the applications on structural and dynamic studies in biological systems, and inorganic materials. (http://sites.udel.edu/hou)