2024.01-: Visiting Researcher, Department of Chromosome Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany

2020.05-: Associate Professor, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

2018.12-2019.12: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biology, Duke University, USA

2017.01-2020.04: Assistant Professor, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

   

1. Han TS*, Lv JX, Xing YW*. 2026. A framework for identifying the polyploid complex in Rorippa (Brassicaceae): combining trait evolution, herbarium records, and machine learning. Annals of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcag050
2. Han TS*, Zheng QJ, Lv JX, Li S, Du ZQ, Xing YW^*. 2025. Intraspecific genome size variation in Rorippa indica reveals a tropical adaptation by genomic enlargement. Physiologia Plantarum. 177: e70601. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.70601.
3. Du ZQ, Xing YW*, Han TS*. 2024. Effects of environment and genotype-by-environment interaction on phenotype of Rorippa elata (Brassicaceae), an endemic alpine plant in the Hengduan Mountains. Journal of Plant Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtae048
4. Han TS, Yu CC, Zheng QJ, Kimura S, Onstein RE, Xing YW*. 2024: Synergistic polyploidization and long-distance dispersal enables the global diversification of yellowcress herbs. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(3): 458-469. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13798
5. Han TS*, Hu ZY, Du ZQ, Zheng QJ, Liu J, Mitchell-Olds T, Xing YW*. 2022. Adaptive responses drive the success of polyploid yellowcresses (Rorippa Scop., Brassicaceae) in the Hengduan Mountains, a temperate biodiversity hotspot. Plant Diversity, 44(5): 455-467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2022.02.002
6. Hu ZY, Zheng QJ, Mu QY, Du ZQ, Xing YW*, Han TS*. 2021. The mating system and reproductive assurance of Rorippa elata (Brassicaceae) across latitude. Biodiversity Science, 29(6): 712-721. https://doi.org/10.17520/biods.2021056
7. Zheng QJ, Yu CC, Xing YW*, Han TS*. 2021. A new Rorippa species (Brassicaceae), R. hengduanshanensis, from the Hengduan Mountains in China. Phytotaxa, 480: 210-222. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.480.3.1
8. Han TS, Zheng QJ, Onstein RE, Rojas-Andrsés BM, Hauenschild F, Muellner-Riehl AN, Xing YW*. 2020. Polyploidy promotes species diversification of Allium through ecological shifts. New Phytologist, 225: 571-583. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16098
9. Han TS, Wu Q, Hou XH, Li ZW, Zou YP, Ge S, Guo YL*. 2015. Frequent introgressions from diploid species contribute to the adaptation of the tetraploid Shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris). Molecular Plant, 8: 427-438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2014.11.016

Speciation and adaptation of polyploid plants. Two main ongoing works including:

1. The origin of polyploid plants in high mountains and their evolutionary and genetic basis of high-altitude adaptation;

2. The role of natural ploidy variation involved in speciation and trait novelty.