09/2017-present, Professor, School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China
08/2015-07/2017, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (w/Prof. Dierk Raabe), Department of Microstructure Physics and Alloy Design, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany.
09/2013-09/2017, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China.