中央美術學院博士、北京服裝學院長聘教授、博士生導師、（香港）利榮森獲獎學人、北京大學人文社會科學研究院訪問教授、（美國）紐約大都會博物館高級訪問研究員，中國敦煌吐魯番學會會員、敦煌傳統文化與中醫藥專業委員會委員、中國唐史學會會員、中國考古學會會員。

主要研究領域為絲綢之路佛教藝術、漢唐視覺藝術、物質文化，感受、實踐與觀念史。

作為項目主持人或重要研究骨幹承擔了國內以及國際合作研究項目等10余項科研項目。在《文物》《故宮博物院院刊》《敦煌吐魯番研究》《敦煌學輯刊》，Chinese Studies in History 等期/集刊上發表論文數十篇。應邀在美國賓夕法尼亞大學、紐約大學、紐約大都會博物館、北京大學、中國歷史研究院、南京市博物館總館等學術機構舉辦學術演講。

Senior professor at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, visiting professor at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Peking University, JS Lee memorial fellow, and fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She got her Ph.D. from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. She is also a member of the Society of Dunhuang Turpan Studies, the Committee of Dunhuang Traditional Culture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Society of the History of Tang, and the Society of Chinese Archaeology.

Her primary research areas include Buddhist art along the Silk Road, visual arts of the Han and Tang dynasties, material culture, history of sensation, embodied practice, and history of ideas. Serving as project leader or key research member, she has undertaken over ten domestic and international research projects. She has been published widely in journals such as Cultural Relics, Journal of the Palace Museum, Dunhuang Turpan Studies, Journal of Dunhuang Studies, and Chinese Studies in History. She delivered lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Peking University, the Institute of Chinese Historical Studies, and the Nanjing Museum and other institutions.