Current Position

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

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

Past Academic Positions
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