2025                        Assistant professor, Utrecht University, Netherlands

2019-2025              Postdoctoral researcher, University of Chicago, USA

2015-2019              PhD, Neuroscience Center Zurich (ZNZ), Switzerland

2010-2014              MS, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

2006-2010              BS, China Medical University, Taiwan

Ting-Feng Lin began his scientific training as a master’s student in the laboratory of Dr. Chih-Yung Tang at National Taiwan University where he investigated biophysical properties of voltage-gated K+ channels (Eag and Erg) and identified a novel role of the N terminus in voltage-dependent inactivation that plays an important role in the cardiac delayed rectifier K+ current and in regulating the intrinsic electrophysiological property of several neuron types. 

After His master’s study, he pursued my Ph.D. in the oculomotor laboratory of Dr. Melody Ying-Yu Huang at the University Hospital of Zurich (Neuroscience Center of Zurich, UZH and ETH Zurich), where he discovered and characterized an adaptive oculomotor behavior in larval zebrafish, linking it to human foveal hypoplasia and infantile nystagmus syndrome. 

As a postdoc with Dr. Christian Hansel at the University of Chicago, he investigated cerebellar plasticity in intact, awake mice. He first demonstrated that Purkinje cell receptive fields undergo plasticity through both synaptic and intrinsic mechanisms. Furthermore, he showed that predictive parallel fiber ramping activity facilitates LTD in the in vivo cerebellum.