CV 

Education 🎓

September 2020 – April 2025

Central European University (Vienna, Austria)

PhD candidate in Political Science - International Relations track

·  Supervisor: Professor Michael Merlingen

·  Research interests: Knowledge production, Culture diplomacy, Chinese foreign policy, & European politics

September 2018 – June 2020

Central European University (Budapest, Hungary)

Master of International Relations

·      Concentration: EU Foreign Policies, and EU-Asia Relations

·      Thesis title: Backyard fire in the EU: The influence of “normative power China” in Hungary, supervised by Professor Michael Merlingen, pass with distinction

September 2014 – November 2018

Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong SAR, China)

Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) in Government and International Studies

·      Concentration: International Organisations, Foreign Policies, China Studies

·      Thesis title: Alternative decision makers: The role of experts in EU policy-making process, supervised by Dr C. K. Martin Chung 

·      Exchange semester at the University of Bergen, Norway

Academic experiences and positions 🏫

March 2026 - July 2026 Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna, Austria)

CEU-IWM Postdoctoral Research Fellow

·         Research work on the political concepts in Chinese IR theories with focus on knowledge production, conceptual violence, and globalising IR

·         Organising academic events

March 2026 - July 2026 European University Institute (Florence, Italy)

Research Assistant (Part-time)

·         Working with Dr Tamas Peragovics on the Max Weber project DIPLORELATE

·         Translating Chinese-language material related to the US-China rapprochement of the early 1970

·         Analysing the archival resources related to the US-China diplomatic practice with a text-as-data approach

January 2023 – June 2026 Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong SAR, China)

Senior Research Assistant & Project Officer

·         Research project “How China speaks to the world in the Covid-19 era: China’s political communication and mobilisation in Europe” (Funded by Hong Kong Research Grants Council, HKD 762,687 ≈ euros 93,000)

·         Process the administrative tasks of the project

·         Monitor the budget of the whole project

·         Conduct research

·         Coordinate the impact-related activities and outputs in all 7 countries

·         Organise workshops and conferences under the project

September 2024 – May 2025 Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business) (Vienna, Austria)

External Course Instructor/Lecturer

·         Course: EU-China political and economic relations (BA level)

September 2024 – Present Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary)

Course Instructor (under the CEU Global Teaching Fellowship)

·         Foreign Policy and Security Studies (BA level)

·         International Relations Theories (BA level)

September 2024 – December 2024 Central European University (Vienna, Austria)

Course Instructor/ Lecturer

·         Course: Political Communication under the Globalisation (BA level)

April 2024 – August 2024 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong SAR, China)                                                   

Project Assistant (Department of Applied Social Science)

·         Under the supervision of Dr Mathew Wong

·         Worked on the project on Democracy and social income distribution with STATA

·         Co-authored the conference paper Social Polarisation and the Belief of Democracy and Redistribution and presented at the IPSA 75th Anniversary Conference (Lisbon)

February 2023 – May 2024 Beijing Normal University & Hong Kong Baptist University United International College                                                                                

Lecturer

·         Course: Public Administration and Media (MA level)

·         Course: Globalisation of media and communication (MA level)

·         Course: Political communication and media (MA level)

July 2022 – August 2024 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München – Central European University (Vienna, Austria)

Senior Lecturer, MISU (LMU) – DSPS (CEU)

·         Delivered the courses (3 ECTS) for two groups of students attending the MISU hosted by CEU in Vienna; the courses were about EU politics and European Studies, including the political structures on the EU and the EU’s external relationships

·         Held the first and the second Model European Union in CEU and organised the students’ visit to the UN (Vienna) and the House of European Union (Vienna)

February 2022 – December 2022 Education University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR, China)

Research Assistant, Department of Asian and Policy Studies

·         Research project: High-skilled migration policies of Chinese cities

·         Under the Research project “High-skilled migration policies of Chinese cities: variation and explanations” (Funded by Hong Kong Research Grants Council, HKD 477,144 ≈ euros 58,000)

September 2021 – May 2024 Central European University (Vienna, Austria)

Teaching Assistant (Part-time, Department of International Relations)

·         INTR5044 - International Relations Concepts and Theory 2021/22 Fall

·         INTR5437 - International Intervention and Statebuilding 2021/22 Winter

·         UGST4028 - Deep Reading: Democratic Freedom and Its Enemies 2021/22 Winter

·          UGST4000 - Introduction to Political Economy 2021/22 Spring

·         INTR5044 - International Relations Concepts and Theory 2022/23 Fall

·         UGST4055 - Nations and Society 2022/23 Fall

·         INTR5769 - Decarbonizing IR: Fossils, Emissions and Security 2022/23 Winter

·         UGST4028 - Democratic Freedom and Its Enemies 2022/23 Winter

·         UGST4019 - Introduction to Politics 2023/24 Fall

·         UGST4028 - Democratic Freedom and Its Enemies 2023/24 Winter

July 2021 – September 2021 Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong SAR, China)

Research Assistant (Department of Government and International Studies)

·         Projects on China-Africa relations, Under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Pierre Cabestan

September 2020 – September 2021 Open University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR, China)

Course Developer

·         Designed the mandatory course “Understanding Economics and Politics”

·         Edited the blueprint of the course

·         Wrote and edited the study guidebook of the course

·         Designed the assessments and final exam of the course

May 2019 – September 2019 Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong SAR, China)

Research Assistant (Department of Government and International Studies)

·         Collected data for the academic project working on the Chinese party building and local governance

·         Conducted interviews with key diplomats and scholars on EU-China relations and the Chinese global strategy

February 2019 – May 2019 Central European University (Budapest, Hungary)

Research Assistant (Department of International Relations)

·      Wrote academic reports on 30 country-case studies of Dr Li Xiang’s project about the impact of regime changes on their relations with China

Other activities 🌐

·         Guest editor of the special issue: Digital diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, in Global Media and Communication, forthcoming in April 2025

·         December 2024, helped the organisation with ECPR’s Seminar, Book talk: Chinese migration to Europe: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDetails/15793

·         September 2024, Guest lecture on Discourse Analysis and Thematic analysis for postgraduate students at HSE University, Russia 

·         August 2024, Panel Chair of The Everyday Communication of and Emerging Media for Chinese Diaspora in Europe at the ECPR General Conference 2024 (Dublin)

·         August 2024, organsied the One-day Symposium: China in the International Communication Order at Central European University (Vienna) 

·         May 2024, facilitated the symposium held by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies: Digital diplomacy with Chinese characteristics at University of London (London)

·         February 2022, Guest lecture on Discourse Analysis for postgraduate students at Hong Kong Baptist University