CURRICULUM VITAE Personal Information: Surname: Yu Given Name: Xiong-jie Address: Room 210, Kexue Building Huajiachi Campus, Zhejiang Univ Tel. No.: (86) 15305819056 E-mail:
[email protected] Place of Birth: Suizhou, Hubei Province Nationality: China Professional Experience June, 2014– Present Principal Investigator, Professor, Interdisciplinary Institute of Neuroscience and Technology, Zhejiang University The current goals of my lab: 1) To seek the neuronal correlates with the sound related dicision making such as sound detection/discrimination and sound location. 2) To seek the origin of these correlates and the origin of the psychological limit. 3) To seek how attention, adaptation and emotion (especially depression) affect the decision making and the neuronal mechanism underlying the effects Formal Education May, 2012–May, 2014 Postdoctoral Research Associate,Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. November, 2009–May, 2012 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO. August, 2008–October, 2009 Research Associate, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University September, 2003–June, 2008 Ph.D Candidate, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing September,1999 – June, 2003 Bachelor of Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province Funding & Awards Mianshang grant from NSF, 670, 000 RMB, January 2017- December, 2020 Zhejiang 1000 Talent Program, November 2016 Publications Yu XJ*, J. David Dickman, Gregory C. DeAngelis, and Dora E. Angelaki*. Neuronal thresholds and choice-related activity of otolith afferent fibers during heading perception.(2015) PNAS 112 (20): 6467-6472 Xu XX, Zhai YY, Kou XK and Yu XJ*.Spatial Stimulus-specific adaptation facilitates the spatial discrimination through sharpening the response contrast in the thalamic reticular nucleus of rat (2016) (Under review).