Ling Peng

Ling Peng is a research director at the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS). She carried her undergraduate study in chemistry at Nanjing University in China, then joined the group of Professor Albert Eschenmoser at Swiss Federal Institute of Polytechnic in Zurich in 1987 for her Ph.D program. After she completed her Ph.D thesis on the synthesis of modified DNA oligonucleotides in 1993, she spent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow in the group of Prof. Maurice Goeldner at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg in France, where she developed various photosensitive probes to investigate the functions of cholinesterases and biomembranes.