Biography
Yan Yan is studying applied psychology at Nanjing University, being the top student in her class. She was a visiting student in experimental psychology at St. Anne's College, Oxford. She did research on the effect of dust haze on mental stress and tests for preschool emotional competence training. She has also investigated the interplay between sleep and emotion regulation at the Stanford Psychophysiology Lab. Outside of academics, Yan edited a campus literary magazine and ran the society for gender and LGBTQ+ equality at her university. She has also taught or mentored under-privileged adolescents, and served as a translator and interpreter. Yan hopes to become a clinical psychologist dedicated to psychopathology research that is socially informative.