Biography
Hui Lian is affiliated both to the Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China. After a year working with Svante Pääbo in Bavaria, Jim went up to New College in Oxford where he completed a DPhil in human population genetics with David Goldstein. Jim moved back to Edinburgh in 2003 after a stint at University College London, to take up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship.