IAS Fellowship Scheme

Joshua Parr Ehrlich

Junior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • History of Knowledge
  • Political thought
  • The East India Company
  • The British Empire
  • South and Southeast Asia

Ting-mien Lee

Junior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Classical Chinese philosophy, with a specific focus on inter-state relational ethics and its relevance to today’s international relations and global order.

Defeng Li

Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Neuro-cognitive and psycholinguistic investigation of translation processes
  • Corpus applications in translation studies
  • Curriculum and material development in translation education
  • Data-based empirical translation studies research methods
  • Specialized translation (e.g. journalistic, legal, financial, business translation)
  • Second Language Education

Jun Li

Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Leonardo da Vinci and Renaissance Art
  • East-West Transcultural Arts Interaction
  • Cultural Heritage and Exhibition Planning
  • Visual Culture and Art History Methodology

Yiqing Li

Junior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Nationalism and Globalism of Modern Chinese Art
  • Modern Southeast Asian Art
  • Transcultural and Global Art Histories
  • Modern Abstract Art

Hans-Georg Moeller

Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Chinese and Comparative Philosophy (specifically Daoism)
  • Social and Political Thought (specifically Social Systems Theory)

João Veloso

Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Phonology
  • Theoretical models in Phonology
  • Formal Phonology
  • Descriptive Phonology of Portuguese
  • Comparative Linguistics
  • Linguistic Typology
  • Language and Variation
  • Element Phonology
  • Sociophonetics
  • Phonology-Morphology, Phonology-Lexicon, Phonology-Phonetics
  • Prosody
  • Phonological change and variation

Qingjie Wang

Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Contemporary European Philosophy, esp. Heidegger’s Philosophy and Hermeneutics
  • East-West Comparative Philosophy
  • Chinese Philosophy
  • Ethics and Moral Philosophy

Jie Xu

Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests

Research Areas

  • Grammatical Theory
  • Chinese Linguistics
  • Language Acquisition and Language Education

Current Research

  • Comparative Studies of Chinese and English Grammars
  • Principle-Based Grammatical Analysis
  • Grammatical Violations in Innovative Writings and Their Linguistic Significance

Yuhang Xu

Junior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Chinese Dialectology
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Contact Linguistics

Jian Zhang

Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Classical Chinese Poetry
  • Chinese Literary Criticism
  • Ancient Chinese Texts
  • Modern Academic History

Ying Zhang(Ellen)

Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests

Yue Zhang

Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Classical Chinese literature
  • Sinology studies

Yuansi Hou

Junior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Consumer psychology research in the services industry by using lab and field experiments, particularly focus on:
    • Environmental Psychology and Social Cognition;
    • Behavioural Economic Decision Making and Pricing; and
    • Service Technology and AI

Long Wai Lam (Rico)

Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Dirty Work
  • Workplace Incivility
  • Trust
  • Leadership

Zhuo Qiao

Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Financial Economics
  • Corporate Finance
  • Applied Econometrics

Mingming Zhou

Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Self-Regulated Learning, Metacognition, Achievement Motivation
  • Innovative Research Methods in Education and Psychology
  • Use of Technology in Teaching and Learning
  • Emotion, Self-identity

João Ilhão Moreira

Junior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • International Arbitration
  • Civil Procedure
  • Regulation
  • Socio-Legal Studies
  • Competition Law
  • Gaming Law

Rostam J. Neuwirth

Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • International Economic Law / International Trade Law / WTO Law
  • European Union (EU) Law
  • Transnational Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Law & Technology
  • Cultural Heritage Law / Creative Industries / Creative Economy / Cultural Diversity
  • Comparative Law
  • Legal Oxymora and Legal Theory

Kei Kei Ng

Junior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • General Theory of Civil Law, Obligation Law
  • Legal History, Roman Law, Legal translation

Alexandr Svetlicinii

Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Advanced Issues of International Trade Law
  • Business Law
  • Commercial Contracts
  • Comparative Legal Systems
  • Economic Law of the European Union
  • EU Trade Law
  • Intellectual Property Law in the Creative Economy
  • Transnational Law

Weixing Hu (Richard)

Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Politics and Public Policy
  • International Political Economy
  • China and East Asian International Relations
  • China’s Foreign Relations
  • Hong Kong, Macau and Greater China Studies

Jianhua Xu

Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Crime and Migrant Workers in China
  • Sociology of Crime and Deviance
  • Urban Sociology
  • Policing
  • Victimology
  • Social Problems in China

Xinshu Zhao

Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Marketing
  • Business Administration
  • Quantitative Social Research

Zhenning Li

Junior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Connected and Autonomous Driving
  • Intelligent Transportation System Optimization
  • Deep Learning and Traffic Big Data Analysis
  • Traffic Behavior Analysis and Traffic Safety Modelin

Mei Wan Chen

Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Molecular Pharmaceutics
  • Biomaterial and Nanomedicine
  • Targeted Drug Delivery System

Excellence Publication Scheme


Shih-Diing Liu

Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests

  • Cultural Analysis of Social Media Platforms and Practices (2011-present)
  • Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004-present)
  • Politics of Subject: Social Movement, Protest, Cultural Resistance, Critical Theory (2000-2019)