I earned my PhD in Philosophy from KU Leuven in 2007 and am currently a Professor of Philosophy at Peking University, where I also serve as Vice Director of the Center for Classical and Medieval Studies. My work specializes in ancient and medieval philosophy, with a particular focus on pre-modern theories of mind, emotion, morality, and free will.

I have published in a number of prestigious international journals, including Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales, Augustiniana, Modern Schoolman, Review of Metaphysics, Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, and The Thomist. I have also authored two monographs in Chinese: Voluntas et libertas: A Philosophical Account of Augustine’s Conception of the Will in the Domain of Moral Psychology (2010) and Fifteen Lectures on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (2023).

My project at the Centre will compare the theories of Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus on free will. My primary goal is to understand how each philosopher's framework explains free human actions as being simultaneously undetermined and intelligible.