Plenary lecture

Yifan Cheng
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco

Education

1982: B.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
1987: M.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
1991: Ph.D. in Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Positions

1991: NTNF Fellow, Department of Physics and Center for Materials Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Host: Professor Jon Gjønnes
1993: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, with Professor Fanghua Li
1994: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Matallforschung, Institut für Werkstoffwissenschaft, Stuttgart, Germany, Host: Dr. Joachim Mayer
1996: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, with Professor Kenneth A. Taylor
1997: Senior Research Associate, International Institute for Advanced Research, Central Research Laborotories, Matsushita Electrical Industry Ltd. (Panasonic) & Department of Biophysics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan with Professor Yoshinori Fujiyoshi
1999: Research Associate, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, with Professor Thomas Walz
2004: Instructor in Cell Biology, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
2012: Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California San Francisco San Francisco, California
2015: Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California San Francisco San Francisco, California
2015: Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Awards

1991: Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (NTNF) Research Fellowship
1994: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship
2014: K.H. Kuo Award for Distinguished Scientist