Lin He received a B.S. (1997) from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and a Ph.D. (2003) from Stanford University. She was a postdoctoral fellow (2003-2007) at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory prior to becoming an assistant professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008. Her scientific articles have appeared in such journals as Nature, Nature Genetics, and Science.