Biography

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  Zuoyue Wang

  Zuoyue Wang is a professor of history at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, specializing in science, technology, and politics in modern US, China, and transnational contexts. Born in China and originally trained in physics, he received his PhD from UC Santa Barbara and published In Sputnik’s Shadow: The President’s Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America (2008; Chinese translation in 2011). He is currently studying the history of Chinese American scientists and US-China scientific relations, for which he received a grant from the National Science Foundation in 2010–2014. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

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  Marcus Conlé

  Marcus Conlé is a research fellow at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY. He is the coordinator of the project WIKOOP-INFRA that develops recommendations for handling cooperation with China at large research infrastructures. He is also an associate at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), where he co-authors the Asia Pacific Research Area (APRA) Performance Monitoring reports commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Marcus has done extensive research on China’s regional and sectoral innovation systems in Bremen and Duisburg. He studied Area Studies/China in Cologne and Dalian and completed his doctorate at the Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen.

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  Katrin Kinzelbach

  Katrin Kinzelbach is professor of political science at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, visiting professor at King’s College London, and an associated project manager at the V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, where she focuses on the word-wide assessment of academic freedom. Kinzelbach is engaged in various committees on the same topic, for example the Academic Freedom Committee of the International Studies Association. Before joining FAU, Kinzelbach was associate director of the Global Public Policy Institute, and visiting professor at Central European University in Budapest. She spent her postdoc years in Hangzhou, China (2011–2012). Kinzelbach is interested in understanding how Chinese universities operate in the context of heightened political control. 

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  Tommy Shih

  Tommy Shih is an Associate Professor in Business Administration at Lund University and a Senior Adviser at the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT). In 2021–2022 he was a Senior Adviser at the Swedish National China Center established by the Swedish government and served as an expert in the areas of science, technology and industry.

  His research on global science and geopolitics (www.globalsciencechallenges.com) and on innovation management. At STINT he is in charge of leading the work on responsible internationalization focusing on managing research security, integrity and responsibility. The initiative is done in close collaboration with international funding agencies and partnerships such as NSF (US), the Swedish Research Council, and Japan Science and Technology Agency.