Fall 2020 I’m joining Zhejiang University to start a new lab in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Genomics. Positions opening soon for undergrad/RA/grad/phd and probably postdoc!!! Contact me if you are interested.

August 14, 2020 Manuscript Large-scale Phenomic and Genomic Analysis of Brain Asymmetrical Skew posted on bioRxiv. Pre-print Download

July, 2020 Paper Reproducibility in the absence of selective reporting: An illustration from large-scale brain asymmetry research accepted in Human Brain Mapping. Preprint version | Full Text PDF

June, 2020 Got a news interview from magazine VOX on the co-authorship paper Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams. News from VOX In Dutch/In English

May, 2020 Co-authorship paper Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams published in Nature. Full text | Nature news&views | News from RU In Dutch/In English

April, 2020 Paper Mapping brain asymmetry in health and disease through the ENIGMA consortium accepted in Human Brain Mapping. Preprint version | Full Text PDF | 中文介绍

April, 2020 Organized the Chinese Association for Psychological & Brain Sciences CAPBS 2020 NEUROCHAT online, together with Chinese friends based in Europe, North America, and China (Dr. Ruyuan Zhang, Dr. Xindi Wang, Dr. Chuanpeng Hu, Dr. Haojiang Ying, Dr. Xiangbin Teng, Dr. Ting Xu, Dr. Xin Di, Dr. Lei Zhang, and Dr. Wenhang Zhang).

April, 2020 Paper Gene Expression Correlates of the Cortical Network Underlying Sentence Processing published in Neurobiology of Language. Full Text PDF | 中文介绍

March, 2020 Co-authorship paper ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries published in Translational Psychiatry. Full text

March, 2020 Co-authorship paper An overview of the first 5 years of the ENIGMA obsessive–compulsive disorder working group: The power of worldwide collaboration published in Human Brain Mapping. Full text

March, 2020 Co-authorship paper Aberrant posterior cingulate connectivity classify first-episode schizophrenia from controls: A machine learning study published in Schizophrenia Research. Full text

March, 2020 Co-authorship paper Genetic effects on planum temporale asymmetry and their limited relevance to neurodevelopmental disorders, intelligence or educational attainment published in Cortex. Full text


Dec. 19, 2019 Paper Gene Expression Correlates of the Cortical Network Underlying Sentence Processing accepted in Neurobiology of Language. Preprint

Nov. 28, 2019 Gave a talk An Integrative Analysis of Gene Expression and Functional Brain Network Donders - Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience meeting (Symposium and conference) 2019, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Oct. 2019 Co-authorship paper Altered structural brain asymmetry in autism spectrum disorder in a study of 54 datasets published in Nature Communications. Full text

Oct. 18, 2019 Gave a talk 多中心合作与可重复的心理与脑科学研究,增强心理学研究的可重复性工作坊,2019年全国心理学学术会议,杭州

Jun. 18, 2019 Awarded with the Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics [Levelt Innovation Award](https://twitter.com/CaroRowland/status/1140957971213619200).

Jun. 9-13, 2019 Presented a poster Gene Expression Correlates of the Cortical Network Underlying Sentence Processing at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping OHBM2019 in Rome, Italy.

Jun. 9-13, 2019 Presented a poster Mapping Cortical and Subcortical Asymmetry in OCD: Findings from the ENIGMA Consortium at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping OHBM2019 in Rome, Italy.

May, 2019 Paper 多中心合作和可重复的心理与脑科学研究 published in 心理技术与应用(Psychology: Techniques and Application). Link

Apr. 20, 2019 Received the 2019 OHBM (Organization for Human Brain Mapping) Hackathon travel award.

Apr. 14, 2019 Paper Mapping Cortical and Subcortical Asymmetry in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Findings from the ENIGMA Consortium accepted in Biological Psychiatry. Link | Full Text PDF | Open Access (valid in 50 days) | 中文介绍 | Commentary | 评论文章介绍

Apr. 9, 2019 Presented a poster Gene Expression Correlates of the Cortical Network Underlying Sentence Processing at the Symposium - Crossing the boundaries: Language in Interaction in Nijmegen, Netherlands

Jan. 25, 2019 Awarded the pre-SIPS (Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science) travel grant.


Oct. 20-21, 2018 Organized the Chinese Association for Psychological & Brain Sciences 2018 Meeting/欧洲华人心理与脑科学会议 in Nijmegen, together with Chinese friends in Europe (Dr. Xu Gong, Dr. Yue Hu, Dr. Xiangbin Teng, Dr. Chuanpeng Hu, Wei Liu, Tao He, Peiying Zuo, and Xiaojing Gu).

Oct. 12, 2018 Gave a talk Linking Gene Expression to Cognition in the Human Brain at the Donders Discussion, Nijmegen.

Oct. 11, 2018 Shared our paper Gene Expression Correlates of the Cortical Network Underlying Sentence Processing online in BioRxiv Link.

Jun. 17-21, 2018 Presented a poster Mapping Cortical Brain Asymmetry in 17,141 Healthy Individuals Worldwide via the ENIGMA Consortium at the OHBM 2018 in Singapore. Also had opportunity to be part of the Organizing Committee of the Annual Event of Chinese Young Scholars for Human Brain Mapping.

May 15, 2018 Paper Mapping Cortical Brain Asymmetry in 17,141 Healthy Individuals Worldwide via the ENIGMA Consortium published in PNAS. Link | Full Text PDF | Media Reports: MPI News - Spectrum News

May 10, 2018 Presented a poster A Survey of Altered Brain Anatomical Asymmetry in Obsessive-Compusive Disorder at the Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting in New York City, USA

May 8, 2018 Gave a talk Mapping Brain Asymmetry: Updates from the ENIGMA Lateralization Group at the ENIGMA meeting, New York City

Jan. 30, 2018 Gave a talk Global Team Neuroscience: Updates from the ENIGMA Lateralization Working Group at the workshop on Imaging Genetics of Human Brain Laterality held in the Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen.

Jan. 8, 2018 Manuscript about the Bayes Factor and JASP was accepted by Advances in Psychological Science (In Chinese). Pre-print Download


Dec. 30, 2017 Received the Distinguished Doctorial Dissertation Award (优秀博士学位论文) at Beijing Normal University. Announcement

Oct. 1, 2017 Manuscript Mapping Cortical Brain Asymmetry in 17,141 Healthy Individuals Worldwide via the ENIGMA Consortium submitted to bioRxiv. Pre-print Download

Sep. 7-8, 2017 Presented a poster Gene Expression Correlates of the Human Language Network, at the Neurogenomics: the road ahead in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Jul. 14, 2017 Manuscript Sex-linked Association between Cortical Scene Selectivity and Navigational Ability was accepted by NeuroImage. Full Text PDF

Jun. 28, 2017 Presented a poster Differential Gene Expression Associated with Frontal and Occipital Asymmetries of the Human Brain at the OHBM2017 in Vancouver, Canada.

Jun. 24, 2017 Gave a talk Mapping Cortical Brain Asymmetry in 17,141 Healthy Individuals Worldwide at the ENIGMA Data Blitz Dinner meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada, before the OHBM2017.

Feb. 1, 2017 Paper Genetic Variation in S100B Modulates Neural Processing of Visual Scenes in Han Chinese was published in Cerebral Cortex. Full Text Download

Jan. 4, 2017 Manuscript Quantifying the Variability of Scene-selective Regions: Interindividual, Interhemispheric, and Sex Differences was accepted as Cover Article in Human Brain Mapping. Full Text Download


Nov. 2016 Attended the Human Brain Project Education Programme - Third HBP School, Obergurgl, Austria.

Aug. 31, 2016 Moved to Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and started a position in the MPI&Donders.