Lei Li holds the Professorship in “Economics and Politics of China” at the Faculties of Business and Economics and the Faculty of Humanities at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Before joining the University of Göttingen in 2024, she served as an Assistant Professor (W1) at the University of Mannheim. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Tsinghua University.…
Category: Researchers
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Dr. Tao Zhang

Tao Zhang has been a Professor of Subject Didactics in the field of Chinese as a Foreign Language (ChaF) at the East Asian Seminar of Georg-August University Göttingen since October 2024. In her research and teaching, she focuses on various aspects of Chinese didactics and cultural mediation in language instruction. Previously, she worked at the universities…
Meet Our Researchers: Li Xuetao

Li Xuetao is a historian of Chinese history, scholar of religious studies, and Germanist. He studied in Beijing, Marburg, and Bonn, and earned his PhD in Bonn. He is a professor of global history at the Beijing Foreign Studies University. Since 2023, he has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.…
Meet Our Researchers: Peng Guoxiang

Prof. Dr. PENG Guoxiang got his Ph.D. from Peking University and is now the Qiu Shi Distinguished Professor of Chinese philosophy, intellectual history and religions at Zhejiang University. Before moved to Zhejiang University, he was professor at Peking University and Tsinghua University. He was visiting professor, scholar and research fellow at various universities and institutions…
Meet Our Researchers: Rebecca E. Karl

Rebecca E. Karl teaches modern history at New York University in New York. She has studied and written widely on modern and contemporary China, social theory, feminism, twentieth-century political economy, and other related arenas. She is the President of the NYU chapter of the Association of American University Professors and works to protect academic freedom and…
Meet Our Researchers: Harlan David Chambers

Harlan Chambers completed his Ph.D. in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at Columbia University in 2022 and served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Illinois Wesleyan University before joining the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen in 2024. Since June 1, 2024, Mr. Chambers has been working as a…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Merle Schatz

Dr. Merle Schatz (Dr. phil. in Language and Cultural Studies of Central Asia: Mongolian Studies; M.A. in Chinese Studies, Mongolian Studies, and Japanese Studies; Ph.D. candidate at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) joined CeMEAS in July 2023. She joined the Göttingen State and University Library in 2020, following her time as an assistant professor…
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Xiaoming Fu Ph.D.

Prof. Xiaoming Fu Ph.D. joined the CeMEAS in July 2023. He is a Chair Professor (W3) of Computer Science and head of the Computer Networks Group at the University of Göttingen. He received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2000, then worked as research scientist at TU Berlin until joining Göttingen in 2002, where he…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Cornelia Schindelin

Dr. Cornelia Schindelin joined the CeMEAS in May 2023. She has been filling the professorship “Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (TCFL)” since the summer term 2020. She previously worked as a permanent lecturer at the Department of Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies (FTSK) of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germersheim and also…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Martin Minarik

Dr. Martin Minarik joined the CeMEAS in June 2023. Since April 2023, he works as a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Sports Science in the Department for Sociology of Sports and Health. Martin Minarik obtained his PhD in Sports Sociology at Hamburg University with a thesis on the performativity of norms, values,…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Krisztina Kis-Katos

Since May 2023, Dr. Krisztina Kis-Katos is a member of CeMEAS. She joined the University of Göttingen as professor for International Economic Policy in 2016. She studied Economics in Szeged and Konstanz, attended the Swiss Doctoral Program at the Study Center Gerzensee, and received her doctoral degree in Economics in 2010 at the University of…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Dr. Dominique Hertzer

Dr. Phil. Dr. rer. med. Hertzer joined us again in May 2023. As a CeMEAS guest researcher she will conduct her new research project The Practical Application of the Yijing (Book of Changes) in Chinese Medicine:China and the West – A Comparative Study. She held a position as CeMEAS guest reseacher from 05.2017 to 04.2019,…