Category: Researchers

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…

Dr. Dennis Krämer has been a member of CeMEAS since August 2023. Since April 2022, he has held an interim professorship at the Institute for Sports Science at Georg-August-University Göttingen. His research interests focus on the social meaning of digital technologies in crisis situations and the treatment of intersex and transgender people in fields such…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

Dr. Lennart Kaplan joined CeMEAS in May 2023. Since 2020, Lennart Kaplan works a postdoctoral researcher at Göttingen University’s Chair of Development Economics of Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs. Moreover, he is associated with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability. Dr. Kaplan obtained his Ph.D. in development…

Dr. Kaiyi Li joined CeMEAS in April 2023. Since 2021, she has been a research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute in Braunschweig, Germany. She currently leads a BMBF funded project titled “The Digital Transformation of School Education in China: Policies, Governance Structures and Local Stakeholders”. She obtained her…

Dr. Jie Kang is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Her research focuses on contemporary Chinese Christian community, religious network, the interactive relationship between the secular state and religious groups, the inter-religious encounter between Christianity and Islam and the role of the Christian “Back to…