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 PI: Lili He

Education 

May 2007 - Dec 2009      Ph.D. - Food Science           University of Missouri-Columbia      US
Sept 2004 - June 2006      Master in Agronomy - Plant Pathology     Zhejiang University     China
Sept 2000 - June 2004        Bachelor in Agronomy - Plant Protection     Zhejiang University    China

Positions and employment

Sep 2022 –                     Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Jan 2018 – Aug 2022     Associate Professor, Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Jan 2021 – present         Adjunct Faculty, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Oct 2019- present          Director, Raman, IR, and XRF Core Facility, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Nov 2021 - present        Faculty member, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Jan 2016-present            Faculty member, Institute of Applied Life Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Jan 2020 -June 2020      Visiting Associate Professor. Department of Food Science and Technology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Sept 2012- Dec 2017     Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Nov 2009-Aug 2012      Postdoc/research associate, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA.

Honors/awards

  • 2022 UMass Family Research Scholar Award
  • 2021 UMass Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
  • 2019 Top 5% highly cited author in Royal Society of Chemistry’s analytical portfolio of journals
  • 2018-2019 Top downloaded paper in Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
  • Most-cited paper of 2016 Journal of Food Science (Toxicology and chemical food safety section)
  • Most-cited paper of 2014 Journal of Food Science (Toxicology and chemical food safety section)
  • 2017 UMass Faculty Convocation Award
  • 2016 Talented 12 by C&EN, the official magazine of American Chemical Society
  • 2016 Samuel Cate Prescott Award by Institute of Food Technologists
  • 2016 Young Investigator Award by Eastern Analytical Symposium
  • 2015 Young Scientist Award by American Chemical Society-Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division                                      
  • 2015 UMass Faculty Exceptional Merit Award
  • 2012 Young Scientist Award by International Union of Food Science and Technology
  • Top ten articles in Analyst July 2011            
  • Most-cited paper of 2008 Journal of Food Science (Toxicology and chemical food safety section)                  

Curriculum Vitae-2022

Current Lab members:

Postdoc/Core faclity manager: Zili Gao

PhD students: Xinyi Du, Xin Guo, Yuzhen Zhang

Master students: Daniel Barnes, Janvi Patel, Prarthanaa Sankaranarayanan

Undergraduate students:  Adam Forbes, Brooke Newby, Lauren Ho

Visiting scholars:

Previous Lab Members:
Postdoc: Jinkai Zheng, Tan Chen, Bin Zhao, Zhuangsheng (Jason) Lin, Jason Yang, Danhui Wang

PhD: Changchu Ma, Shintaro Pang, Hua Zhang, Tianxi Yang, Zhiyun Zhang, Siyue Gao, Michael Hickey, Yanqi (Cookie) Qu, Janam Pandya, Joshua Gukowsky, Lourdes Matinez, Haochen Dai

Visiting scholars: Yue Li, Tingting Lang, Ruyan Hou, Chunrong Wang, Panxue Wang, Hongshun Hao, Toshifumi Udo, Qin Zhang, Qin Tu, Ming Xia, Ana Barth, Shuilian Bi, Caiping Jiang, Shengnan Zhan, Wanjun Gao

Master students: Victoria Boushell, Corey Fitzgerald, Michael Driver, Kristen Ferencz, Brooke Pearson, Agustina Kim, Haoxin Chen, Xinyi Du, Alexander Mills, Tina Tian, Yu Ho, Noopur Bapardekar 

 Undergraduate students: Bethany Laquidara, Wisiani Wijaya, Paula Feldmar, Lauren Lew, Julia Thompson, Kenneth Le, Aaron Yip, Jessica Glasser, Jessica Gregory, Jiayue Ni, Gregory Papakyrikos, Xiaoyan Tan, Qixiang Gao, Helen Lin, Bozhong Guan, Owen Kuklinski, Vanessa Vu, Brian Zhang, Daniel Barnes, Adriana Dominguez, Benjamin Goldberg, Adi Scoota, Sophie MacRae 

 High school students: Zachary Bernstein, Jamie Day, Joshua Krachman, Zexiang Brady Han, Tonya Xie, Amit Ramachandran,Garrett Landen, Grace Lu

 

 

 

 

   
 
 
   
 
       
   
   
 
       
   
   
 

 

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