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)
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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