From 1995 to 1998, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the United States and the National Institute for Material Science of Japan. From 1998 to the present, he has worked at the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and served as the director from 2007 to 2017. He is currently the director of the laboratory and a professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Standards Committee of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering and an advisory member of the Energy Technology Industry Center of the Institute of Strategic Consulting of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In 2002, he received the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund; in 2007, he was awarded the Top Ten Outstanding Youth Honorary Medal of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; his research results were selected as the top ten scientific and technological advances in 2011; in 2012, he won the first prize of the Science and Technology Award of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering and the first prize of the Science and Technology Award of the China Machinery Industry Federation; in 2024, he was selected as a fellow of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering.

He has presided over more than 30 projects, including the National 863 Program, the 973 Program, the major projects of the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the major science and technology projects of Beijing, the National Natural Science Foundation Innovation Group Project, and the major corporate cooperation projects. Participated in the project review of the National 863 Program, the 973 Program, the Key R&D Program, the National Natural Science Foundation, and many provinces, cities, and autonomous regions, as well as the national science and technology awards and the science and technology awards of many provinces, cities, and autonomous regions, and was invited to participate in the technical achievement appraisal meeting many times. More than 200 papers have been published in collaboration, and more than 50 patents have been authorized.