We are thrilled to welcome Han Cheng to De:link//Re:link’s International Advisory Board. His research examines contemporary China’s global engagement, with a focus on China–Africa relations and the BRI. We are looking forward to plenty of exciting collaborations over the coming months. Below is a short biography of Han from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, where is currently a senior researcher.
Dr. Han Cheng is a senior research scholar in the Lise Meitner Research Group “China in the Global System of Science” and an adjunct professor at Université Laval’s Graduate School of International Studies. He serves as a principal investigator for the Volkswagen Foundation-funded project “China’s Science Silk Road and the New Geopolitics of Knowledge Production”. Together with Anna Lisa Ahlers (MPIWG) and Hang Zhou (Université Laval), he co-leads one of the first in-depth analyses of China’s international cooperation on science, technology and innovation under the BRI.
Han is an editor of Dialogues in Human Geography and a member of the editorial board of Political Geography. He is also involved in the field of Global China Studies, serving as an Editor of The People’s Map of Global China / Global China Pulse and on the global advisory board of the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network.
Han holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge. He has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Robert Bosch Foundation, Yale University, and the National University of Singapore. His research has been supported by the Cambridge Trust, the Royal Geographical Society, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the Max Weber Foundation.