2008年本科毕业于上海大学生命科学专业。2012年获得英国诺丁汉大学心理学博士学位。

2012-2019分别在英国诺丁汉大学、美国纽约大学和天普大学心理学系从事博士后研究。现担任北京师范大学认知神经科学与学习国家重点实验室PI、IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research研究员。其研究运用行为科学、认知科学、网络神经科学、以及计算神经科学探索人类高级社会认知功能的运作机制和生物学基础。

聚焦于多种人类高级社会认知（如模仿、面孔识别、读心、共情、社会决策、道德判断），实验室研究的方向包括：1) 多种社会认知功能间的关系以及社会认知和非社会认知间（如记忆、情绪、学习）的交互作用；2）；社会脑网络间如何协调工作和协同发展；3）个体社交能力差异的生物学基础；4) 社会知识如何在脑中表征、存储和提取；5）在线心理学实验，从方法学上发展出一套有高生态学效度的实验范式来采样个体自然社会行为和脑数据

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