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Li Fangting, associate professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Physics, Peking University. Graduated from the Department of Physics, Nankai University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science degree; obtained a Doctor of Science degree in physics from Beijing Normal University in 2000, under the supervision of Professor Qi Anshen and Professor Du Chanying, in the field of theoretical biology. Since 2001, he has been a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Physics and the Center for Theoretical Biology at Peking University, working with Professor Tang Chao and Professor Ouyang Qi on the study of yeast gene regulatory network dynamics. Since 2007, he has been an associate professor at the School of Physics, Peking University; from January 2008 to February 2009, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

His recent work has focused on quantitative biology research on gene regulatory networks and the immune system.

He is responsible for teaching “Biophysical Introduction” (undergraduate and graduate courses) and “General Physics” (medical preparatory class) at the School of Physics.