08/2017 – 07/2019
Master/ Department of the History of Science, Tsinghua University

09/2018 – 03/2019
Visiting scholar/ Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University

08/2011 – 07/2017
Bachelor/ Peking University

Avicenna’s Theory of Color and Color Perception in Its Greek, Arabic, and Latin Contexts

My dissertation explores how Avicenna developed his theory of color and visual perception through a deep engagement with the Greek tradition and its subsequent impact on the Latin West. Grounded in the Book of Healing, my research traces how he critically inherited and transformed the ideas of Presocratics, Platonists, Galenic physicians, and ancient opticians alongside Islamic theologians. By re-examining his conception of light, color, and the transparent medium, I show how Avicenna synthesized Peripatetic natural philosophy into an innovative framework that profoundly shaped medieval European optics and philosophy of mind.