Experience

IMPRS PhD Researcher

German Cancer Consortium DKTK, German Cancer Research Center DKFZ, Germany


· Working on functional analysis of epigenetic factor in control of cancer cell signaling by multi-omics integration.

· Experienced with CRISPR editing, epigenetics, transcriptional experiments and data analysis, including RNA-Seq, CUT&RUN, CUT&Tag, ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, Hi-C.

· Implementing and optimizing CRISPR editing and RNA-seq data analysis workflow for the lab.

Reviewer

Cell press, Elsevier


· As Peer Reviewer for STAR Protocols (Cell Press), Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) Reviews on Cancer, Gene Reports, Genes & Diseases and Human Gene.

Expert

GLG


· As a GLG Network Member consultant, bringing insight and hand-on experience in the life sciences industry to help clients solve some of their business challenges around product development and consumer opinions.

Judge

iGEM competition


· Judged and reviewed synthetic biology projects from international Genetic Engineered Machine competition’s teams. Reviewed the experiment data and human practise activities on team’s Wikis, attended team presentations for judging at iGEM jamboree on-site and provided written feedback for the teams.

Contributing Editor and Science writer

The Investigator Taiwan, Taiwan


· Contributing Editor and writer about recent biomedical research. Portfolio: https://investigator.tw/author/id003/

· As former editor-in-chief (Year 2017), leading the editorial team, performed strategic planning and project management on editorial workflow.

Co-founder

Chang Gung University International Genetically Machine iGEM Team, CGU_Taiwan


· Co-founder who organized the first iGEM team in Chang Gung University. Built an interdisciplinary team to take part the worldwide synthetic biology competition.

· Wrote proposal, secured team grant funding, did team recruitment and experiments design for the team. The results of RNA toehold switch and engineered G protein-coupled receptor on yeast as biosensor were presented at 2015 iGEM Giant Jamboree in Boston.

· As team advisor in year 2016.

Education

PhD Biology

Max Planck IMPRS-IEM PhD Program & University of Freiburg, Germany

Thesis on contribution of mixed lineage leukemias (MLLs) histone methyltransferase complex in TGF-beta signaling. Supervised by Prof Dr Marc Timmers.

MS Biomedical Sciences

Chang Gung University, Taiwan


· Master of Science (MS), Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Division of Microbiology

· Worked in oral cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer research in Prof. Dr. Yu-Sun Chang lab.

· Discovered miRNA regulation of DNA editing enzyme APOBEC3A in APOBEC3B-deletion germline polymorphism.

BSc Biomedical Sciences

Chang Gung University, Taiwan


· Bachelor of Science (BS), College of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences.

· Worked on gene expression profiling and R in genomics core lab, Molecular Medicine Research Center, supervised by Prof. Hua-Chien Chen PhD.

· First Place Winner, Annual Research Poster Contest and Undergraduate Academic Excellence Award (Ranked top 5% in class 6 out of 8 semesters).
Skills & Hobbies
Molecular Biology
RNA-seq
Epigenetics
CUT&RUN
Gene Editing
Cancer Research
Bioinformatics
Multiomics intergration
R/Python
Presentations
Awards
Vivian Wu Journalism Award for Investigative Journalism
Vivian Wu Journalism Award Foundation, Taiwan ∙ December 2025
Awarded for a commentary article contributed to Investigative Journalism report on Commonwealth Magazine, about “Taiwan — A Fake Study Abroad Paradise”.
FASEB TGF-ß Superfamily Conference Travel Award
FASEB TGF-ß Superfamily Conference ∙ July 2022
Travel fellowship to TGF-ß Superfamily Conference in Ireland.
Taiwan Overseas Community Affair Council Graduate Scholarship Award
Overseas Community Affair Council, Taiwan ∙ January 2017
Scholarship worth NTD120K (USD4,500) granted for excellent academic performance among top 2% overseas Chinese students in Taiwan.
First Place Winner, Annual Research Poster Contest
Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, Chang Gung University ∙ May 2016
Granted for excellent undergraduate thesis research, poster and oral presentation: “Integrative profiling and analysis of Epstein-Barr virus-encoded microRNAs” in the academic year 2016.
Chang Gung Youth Award
College of Medicine, Chang Gung University ∙ April 2016
Granted by College of Medicine, Chang Gung University as one of the most outstanding students in the college in 2015/2016 academic year.
Gold Award in Popular Science Writing
Taiwan Genomics Medicine and Biomarker Society ∙ November 2014
Granted for pop-science essay writing about genomics medicine.
Languages
80%
English Fluent
100%
Chinese Native
60%
Malay Intermediate
20%
German Basic
20%
Indonesian Basic