Chao Gu

Chao Gu is an assistant professor at the Research Center for Chinese Politics, School of Government, Peking University. He received his PhD in 2013 from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences where he specialized in refrigeration and cryogenic engineering. He worked on political science as a postdoctoral researcher at the Compilation and Translation Bureau of the CPC Central Committee from 2015–2017. He also worked on the history of science as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Peking University from 2020–2022. His recent study of the social history of Chinese superconductivity research was published in Social Studies of Science. He is currently working on his monograph (in Chinese) titled Science and Power: The Evolution of Science Regime (科学与权力：科学政体的演化). During his visit at MPIWG's Lise Meitner Research Group, he is conducting the research project “The Politicization of Science in China: A Case Study of Smog Governance.”