About

I am a behavioral and physiological ecologist from Taiwan. I enjoy integrating field and lab experiments to explore how animals respond and adapt to environmental challenges. Currently, I am a PhD student in Prof. Christine Miller's Biotic Interactions Group at the University of Cambridge. My research examines how host plant nutrition and sublethal pesticide exposure influence exoskeleton development and its functional consequences in African pod bugs.

 

My academic journey has been shaped by a series of research projects across different species. During my bachelor's project at National Taiwan Normal University under the supervision of Dr. Yuying Hsu, I investigated the metabolic costs associated with exaggerated weaponry in male stag beetles. Additionally, I completed several side projects on fighting behavior in mangrove killifish. As a summer intern at National Sun Yat-sen University, working with Dr. Shu-Ping Huang, I conducted research on water balance in skinks. For my master’s thesis at National Taiwan University, guided by Dr. Sheng-Feng Shen, I explored the diapause phenology of Asian burying beetle populations. After completing my master’s degree, I continued working as a research assistant in Dr. Shen’s team at the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. I conducted fieldwork for extended time periods in Okinawa and Amami Island in Japan, as well as in Taiwan, to uncover the secrets of burying beetles' breeding seasonality across environmental gradients.

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