She was a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Law at Tsinghua University from 2011-2013. She was awarded the Ph.D degree in Constitutional and Administrative Law by Renmin University in 2011, and the LL.M in EU Law by the University of Bristol in 2007. From 2009 to 2010, she was a Research Associate at Balliol College, University of Oxford. In 2012, she was invited to do research in the Comparative and Public Law Centre at the University of Hong Kong.