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:
Pain; Interoception; Vision and attention
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:
Brain-body Interactions
Qiming Xu
PhD Candidate（2026）
Email: xuqm@psych.ac.cn
Research interest:
Neural encoding and decoding of pain
Shijiani Li
PhD Candidate（2026）
Email: lishijn@psych.ac.cn
Research interest:
Chronic pain
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
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
Yining Zhou
Master’s Candidate（2026）
Email: zhouyn@psych.ac.cn
Research interest:
Neural mechanism of pain
Shangran Wu
Master’s Candidate（2026）
Email: wusr@psych.ac.cn
Research interest:
An online neuromodulation system for human sleep
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
Ruoheng Guo
Visiting Student（2024）
Email: grh281827@163.com
Research interest:
Fear of pain and chronic pain
Saiya Zhang
Visiting Student（2025）
Email: 1835097589@qq.com
Research interest:
chronic pain
Alumni
Student
2026: Fanzhe Fu (Master Graduate)
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
2026: Jiachen Qu
current: PhD Candidate, Beihang University, China
2026: Yipeng Yao
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
2026: Ruihua Liu
2026: Yuanxiang Li
2025: Piaoyi Li
2023: Dong Song