Welcome! I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Government, University of Bergen (UiB) and an associate at the Institute for Asian Studies at German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA).

My research areas include civil society and NGO policy, authoritarianism, and international affairs in East Asia with a regional focus primarily on China and secondarily on the two Koreas. My works are forthcoming or published in Journal of Chinese Political Science, Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, Asian Survey, and The Diplomat, among others.

Before coming to UiB I was a research fellow at German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and a pre-doctoral fellow at School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University in Shanghai, China. I hold MA and PhD in Political Science from Stanford University.

Please see my google scholar, research, invited talks and conferences, and CV for more details.