Background
Ruomei received the Bachelor of Biological Sciences from Beijing Forestry University in 2016. In 2018, she graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Master’s degree in Infectious Diseases. After graduation, Ruomei spent one year doing research at the Telethon Kids Institute with a focus on diseases caused by Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Streptococcus pyogenes. Ruomei returned to China and volunteered her time at the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Fuzhou, Fujian, China) in February 2020, followed by the commencement of employment at the Bureau of Public Health (Taijiang District, Fuzhou, Fujian, China) in May 2020. In 2022, Ruomei returned to Perth and commenced her PhD candidature with the Human Lactation Research Group.
Research Interests
Ruomei is currently focusing on the development of human milk microbiome across the first 12 months of lactation, and relationships with the development of the infant gut microbiome and body composition.