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External Senior Advisors
The LMRG feels honored to be supported by a group of distinguished senior advisors from different disciplines and backgrounds. As globally-renowned leaders in their fields, these experts have agreed to provide guidance on the work of the research group.
- Cong Cao, Professor of Innovation Studies, Nottingham University Business School China
- Yangyang Cheng, Fellow and Research Scholar, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School
- Xinliang Feng, Professor (TU Dresden) and Director, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
- Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society, Anthropology Department, Harvard University
- Barbara Spielmann, Referent for MPG-China Cooperation at MPG Headquarters (1987–2020)
- Xiaoyang Tang, Associate Professor, Vice Chair Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University
- Jianxing Yu, President of Zhejiang Gongshang University; Dean of the School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University
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Alumni
Yu-fen Lai
Qingyang Sonia Li

DNA sculpture at China Science & Technology Museum, Beijing. Source: by Mitch Altman (via Flickr.com, CC-Lizenz (CC-BY-SA 2.0)), 2011.
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Lise Meitner Research Group: China in the Global System of Science
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Researchers
Visiting Scholar (5 Sep 2022-30 Sep 2025)
Prof. Emeritus
Historicizing China’s Climate Change Science
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jun 2020-31 May 2024)
Internationalization or Centralized Control? Managing International Research Cooperation with Chinese Characteristics
Visiting Scholar (19 Jun 2023-30 Sep 2025)
Prof. Dr.
Overseas Development, Foreign Areas and Chinese "World-Writing
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2020-30 Sep 2025)
Dr.
The Reforms of the National Science System of China—Global Models and National Interpretations
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2021-31 Dec 2023)
Dr.
Twentieth-Century Health Diplomacy and Antimicrobial Resistance
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jul 2020-30 Sep 2025)
The Geopolitics of Chinese Arctic Research
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jun 2023-31 May 2024)
Dr.
Popular Science Representations of Artificial Intelligence Research: Investigating the Values of Doing Science in China
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Jul 2020-30 Sep 2025)
Forging ahead under a Changing Sky: Meteorological Services and Crop Seed Breeding as Climate Change Adaptation in China
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Nov 2020-30 Sep 2025)
Scientific Journals and the Transparency of Research: From 20th Century to Open Science
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (25 Dec 2022-31 Jul 2024)
Open Science in University-Industry Research Collaboration in the EU and China
Predoctoral Fellow (17 Aug 2020-16 Aug 2024)
Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence: Framing Governance in Germany, China, and the US
Research Scholar (1 Sep 2020-30 Sep 2025)
Dr.
Chinese Ideas of Africa in an Age of Global Expansion
Visiting Scholar (15 Jul 2020-28 Feb 2025)
Prof. Dr.
The Merton Project: Science and Political Regimes in the 21st Century
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jul 2023-30 Sep 2025)
Number Governance: The Institutionalization of Journal Metrics in the Chinese Science Assessment
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 May 2023-30 Sep 2025)
PACIFIC CROSSINGS: The China Foundation and a Negotiated Translation of American Science to China, 1913-1949
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Nov 2023-14 Nov 2024)
The Evolution of Social Sciences in China since the late 1970s
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Aug 2021-31 Dec 2023)
Dr.
China's Artificial Intelligence Imaginaries and Policy Development
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (3 Jan 2024-3 Jan 2025)
Comparative Study of Mission-Oriented R&D Organizations