Biography

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Bioinorganic Chemistry, University of Iowa , Iowa City , Iowa , December 1994. Dissertation title: Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Heme Peroxidases and Their Reactions with Substrates .

M.S., Agroenvironmental Chemistry, Nanjing Institute of Soil Sciences, Academia Sinica, Nanjing , People's Republic of China , January 1985.
Dissertation title: Effects of Soil Acidification on the Distribution and Chemical Forms of Heavy Metals in Soil Environment .

B.S., Chemistry, Shanxi Normal University , Xi'an , P. R. of China , January 1982.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2005 - Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University , Miami , FL 33199
2003 – 2004 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Jackson State University , Jackson , Mississippi 39217
1999 – 2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Jackson State University , Jackson , Mississippi 39217
1996 – 1999 Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana , Illinois 61801
1995 – 1996 Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biochemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2004-2009
Consultant, Mississippi Chemical Company, Inc. 2000-2003
Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa, 1992-1993.