Current Position

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands (since July 2026)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (since April 2026)
Visiting Researcher

Past Academic Positions

Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Sep 2022 – April 2026)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Maternity leave and parental leave [part-time] from April 2023 to March 2024, and from May 2025 to March 2026.

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (June 2019 – Aug 2022)
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine & Nanyang Centre for Public Administration 
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Education
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2019)
Ph.D. in Sociology
Thesis: Nation in Action: Making Chinese in the Rural Borderland between China and North Korea
Supervisors: Shirley SUN, Min ZHOU (UCLA); Thesis Advisory Committee: Hong LIU, Laavanya KATHIRAVELU
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR (2013)
M.A. in Anthropology
Sun Yat-sen University, China (2012)
B.L. in Anthropology

A detailed CV (includcing a list of grants awarded, teaching experiences, invited talks and publications) is available upon request: chen[at]essb.eur.nl