She also assisted Professor Li Sizhong in conducting a review of the distribution of the important Chinese carp species.
During this stay she mainly worked on the sorting and identification of the collection of freshwater fish from Sri Lanka, most of which actually came from the Museum of Zoology at Lund University.
She was granted laboratory space at the Swedish Museum of Natural History and in 1996 she obtained a full Ph.D. position.
She completed her Ph.D., Phylogeny and species diversity of the South and Southeast Asian cyprinid genus Danio Hamilton (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) in 2000.
[1] After completing her Ph.D. she worked for the European Union funded ECOCARP project searching for new species which could be used for aquaculture in China, this lasted from 2001 to 2003.
[4] Alburnoides fangfangae, a cyprinid endemic to Albania, was also named in her honour in 2010[5] as was the monotypic danionin genus from Borneo, Fangfangia in 2011.