Biography

I was born and grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. I graduated from National Cheng Kung University with a major in Earth Sciences and a minor in Education. After receiving my Bachelor's degree, I took gap years to teach Earth Sciences at Da-Wan High School and attend Mennonite Central Committee’s international volunteer exchange program to be a social worker in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. Then I went back to university to start my research. My first research project focused on trace elements and isotopes in coral skeletons at Lanyu Islet, off southeastern Taiwan, for the reconstruction of past environmental changes in this area. Recently I have expanded my interests to the biogeochemical roles and isotopic signatures of iron and cadmium in shallow marine hydrothermal vents.

Research Area

I am currently working on siderophore production by shallow marine hydrothermal heterotrophic and elemental sulfur-reducing bacteria under aerobic and anaerobic conditions.