PEOPLE
Principal Investigator
Yiheng Tu, PhD (University of Hong Kong)
Emails: tuyh@psych.ac.cn / yihengtu@gmail.com
Address: 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Professional appointments:
2020.11-present Principal Investigator/Research Professor
Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2019.9-2020.10 Instructor
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School, US
2017.1-2019.9 Postdoc
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School, US
Huijuan Zhang
Research Assistant Professor
Email: zhanghj@psych.ac.cn
Address: 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Professional appointments:
2024.4-present Research Assistant Professor
Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2022.4-2024.3 Postdoc
Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Research interest:
Mechanisms of individual differences in pain sensitivity; pain modulation methods
Ruidi Wang
Postdoc
Email: wangrd@psych.ac.cn
Address: 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Professional appointment:
2024.6-present Postdoc
Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Research interest:
Nonsuicidal self-injury (physical pain as pleasure), pain-vision integration, interception and pain sensation
Yipeng Yao
Research Assistant
Email: darianyao@gmail.com
Address: 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Research interest:
Social pain, social cognitive and affective neuroscience
Jiachen Qu
Research Assistant
Email: jiachenqu_psy@163.com
Address: 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Research interest:
Neurodynamics and neuromodulation
Students
Feixue Wang
PhD Candidate（2022）
Email: wangfx@psych.ac.cn
Research interest:
Cognitive modulation of pain
Yangyang Yi
PhD Candidate（2023）
Email: yiyy@psych.ac.cn
Research interest:
Neuromodulation and transmission mechanisms of pain
Jie Chen
PhD Candidate（2024）
Email: chenjie2@psych.ac.cn
Research interest:
Dynamic functional connectivity analysis
Yilan Tang
PhD Candidate（2025）
Email: tangyl@psych.ac.cn
Research interest:
Analgesic strategies
Fanzhe Fu
Master’s Candidate（2023）
Email: fufz@psych.ac.cn
Research interest:
Application of resting state fMRI
Tengyun Zhao
Master’s Candidate（2024）
Email: zhaoty@psych.ac.cn
Research interest:
Pain-related fear
Chenyun You
Master’s Candidate（2024）
Email: youcy@psych.ac.cn
Research interest:
Chronic pain
Shijiani Li
Master’s Candidate（2024）
Email: lishijn@psych.ac.cn
Research interest:
Chronic pain
Mingyan Jiang
Master’s Candidate（2024）
Email:
jiangmingyan24@mails.ucas.ac.cn
Research interest:
Neuromodulation and reward system
Yuqi Zhou
Master’s Candidate（2025）
Email:
zhouyuqi251@mails.ucas.ac.cn
Research interest:
Neural mechanism of pain
Qian Pan
Master’s Candidate（2025）
Email: panq@psych.ac.cn
Research interest:
Brain and spinal cord stimulation
Fan Xia
Master’s Candidate（2025）
Email: xiaf@psych.ac.cn
Research interest:
Pain coding
Ye Tao
Master’s Candidate（2025）
Email: taoy@psych.ac.cn
Research interest:
Pain-related fear
Zhonghua Xiong
Visiting Student（2023）
Co-supervised with Prof. Yonggang Wang at Beijing Tiantan Hospital
Email:
zhonghua_xiong@163.com
Research interest:
Primary headache: from bench to bedside
Yuanxiang Li
Visiting Student（2023）
Co-supervised with Prof. Yonggang Wang at Beijing Tiantan Hospital
Email:
yuanxiangli222@gmail.com
Research interest:
Neuroimaging and migraine
Ruihua Liu
Visiting Student（2023）
Email:
liuruihua@bucm.edu.cn
Research interest:
Chronic pain
Aoxuan Liu
Visiting Student（2024）
Email:
20200521048@bucm.edu.cn
Research interest:
Chronic pain
Ruoheng Guo
Visiting Student（2024）
Email: grh281827@163.com
Research interest:
Fear of pain and chronic pain
Alumni
Student
2025: Lei Zhao (PhD Graduate)
current: POSTDOC, University of Tubingen, BRD
2025: Jingxinmiao Lin
(Master Graduate)
2024: Weiwei Ma (Master Graduate)
2024: Yi Qiu (Master Graduate)
Research Assistant
2024: Wenhui Zhao
current: PhD Candidate, University of Southern California, US
2023: Xiangyu Chang
current: PhD Candidate, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
2023: Peijing Du
2023: Wenjin Fu
Visiting Student
2025: Piaoyi Li
2023: Dong Song