She received her PhD in Solid State Physics at Changchun Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1998 . Then she became a postdoc with Professor Yasuhiko Shirota at the Department of Applied Chemistry, Osaka University, Japan, where she continued researching on Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs). In March 2000, she joined the division lead by Prof. Olle Inganäs at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University (LiU) and began working on Polymer Photodiodes and Solar Cells. April 2008 she became an Associate professor after she received Docent certificate in March 2007. She is a VINNMER Fellow of VINNOVA. She has been a visiting professor at Tianjin University of Technology, China (2009-2013). April 2014, she became a professor at LiU.

Exploring Self-powered organic electrochromic devices for smart window applications Investigating correlation between performance of soluble small molecular solar cells and band-gaps, optical, electrical, packing properties of various polymers Studying charge generation and recombination in OSCs Exploring new devices structures and processing conditions

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