He is Senior Lecturer in Theology and World Christianity and co-director of Centre for the Study of World Christianity at New College, University of Edinburgh.

He finished his PhD in theology in 2012 at the University of Birmingham, supervised under Edmond Tang.

[2] He then spent a year in the School of Liberal Arts at Renmin University of China as a postdoctoral fellow.

[3] He joined the University of Edinburgh as a Chancellor Fellow in September 2013.

[4] He was also the chair of Chinese Christianities Program Unit at American Academy of Religion (2015-2022).