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…
Category: Researchers
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,…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Lennart Kaplan

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…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Kaiyi Li

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…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Jie Kang

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…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Lingling Ni

Dr. Lingling Ni joined CeMEAS in March 2023. After completing her major in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language at East China Normal University in Shanghai, she became a teacher of Chinese and Literature at the High School Affiliated to Tongji University. Afterwards, she came to Germany to study Germanistic, Ancient Chinese Philology and Pedagogics…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Qinqin Peng

Dr. Qinqin Peng joined CeMEAS in July 2022. Since January 2022, she has been a post-doctoral research fellow at the East Asian Department of Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. After studying Chinese literature and philosophy in Nanjing, she obtained her Ph.D. in 2021 for a dissertation titled “Between Faith and Truth: The Historiography of Buddhism in Modern China…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Maryia Danilovich

Dr. Maryia Danilovich is a postdoc and Humboldt fellow at the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen. Prior to this, she was a researcher at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, an EEGA postdoc at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, a Swedish Institute postdoc at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian…
Andreas Fuchs, CeMEAS Director

Andreas Fuchs was born in 1982 in Bad Nauheim. From 2002 to 2008 he studied economics at the universities of Bamberg, Paris-Nanterre, Frankfurt and Paris-Dauphine. Subsequently, he worked as a research assistant for Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher in Göttingen and Heidelberg and received his doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) at the University of Göttingen in 2012.…