In 2000, he received his doctorate from the School of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University. From 2000 to 2002, he was engaged in postdoctoral research in the Department of Chemistry of Nanjing University. Since 2002, he has been an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry of Tianjin University. Among them, from 2006 to 2007, he was a visiting scholar at Inha University in Korea, and from 2007 to 2008, he was engaged in postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Mining in Paris, France.