2022 – present: Lecturer Molecular Microbiology, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

2021 – present: Independent Scholar, Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship

2014 – 2021: (Senior) Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China / Honorary Lecturer, University of Liverpool

2012 – 2014: Postdoctoral Researcher, CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2004 – 2012: Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, VU University Medical Center, the Netherlands

2000 – 2004: PhD student Molecular Microbiology, Institute of Biomembranes, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

1999: MSc Medical Biology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands