Here is a list of all our past and present visiting scholars, including their affiliations and projects
| Name | Academic/PhD Student | Home Institution | Research Title |
| Luciana Acioly da Silva | Academic Researcher | Institute for Applied Economic Research, Brasilia, Brazil | Financial Institutions in China's Internationalization Strategy |
| Waqas Ahmed | Academic Researcher | Khalili Foundation, London, UK | Intercultural peacekeeping strategies: Gaming as a deliberative space |
| Alexandra Allard | PhD Student | Orebro University, Stockholm, Sweden | Sweden's Blue Economy |
| Lewis Asante | Academic Researcher | Kumasi Technical University, Ghana | Housing characteristics, households’ circumstances and adherence to COVID-19 protocols in Ghana |
| Caroline Bertram | Academic Researcher | University of Copenhagen, Denmark | Greening through trade: Exploring trade partners' perceptions and perspectives on EU unilateral trade-environmental policies |
| Bettina Bluemling | Academic Researcher | University of Stavanger, Norway | Energy and Environmental Politics and Policy in a Comparative Perspective |
| Anne Cadoret | Academic Researcher | University of Aix-Marseille, France | FIDELIO-funded project on Marine Protected Areas and in particular the Calanques National Park |
| Christopher Campbell-Durufle | Academic Researcher | University of Toronto, Canada | State Accountability through Regime Interactions: Assessing Opportunities to Enhance the Implementation of the Paris Agreement |
| Alexandre Coelho Teixeira | Academic Researcher | Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications, Brasilia, Brazil | Critical Issues for Brazil in an Age of Heightened Uncertainties and Threats |
| Annette Davis | PhD Student | Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain | Perspectives on Circular Housing: Insights from the UK, Netherlands, and Spain |
| Daria Denti | Academic Researcher | Gran Sasso Science Institute, Vignola, Italy | Whether and how new stimuli brought by cultural activities could relate to the strong cultural outlook of Mafia and whether this effect change between places with an historic Mafia presence and places where Mafia rooted recently |
| Yang Ding | PhD Student | University of Edinburgh Business School, UK | Investigating Gender Barriers in Social Science Research Funding and Academic Performance |
| Pawel Dobrzanski | Academic Researcher | Wrocław University of Economics and Business, Poland | Regional imbalances in the european countries from perspective of innovation ecosystems |
| Sarah Down | Academic Researcher | Australian National University | Key dimensions of Māori legal claims to freshwater |
| Zaenhaer Duman | PhD Student | Beijing Normal University, China | Exploring the multi-dimensional social impacts of cross-regional green power transmission: evidence from China’s UHV grid |
| Enzo Elia | PhD Student | University of Bologna, Italy University of Geneva, Switzerland | How and to what extent the EU contributes to the development and implementation of the global climate regime through the analysis of the elements of the concept of EU actorness |
| Khai Ying Eng | PhD Student | University of Sains, Malaysia | to examine the implications from financial access to gender unemployment gap rate, women economic empowerment and income inequality |
| Chenyu Fang | PhD Student | Technical University of Munich, Germany | Urban network pattern and coordinated development based on multi-source heterogeneous big data of the China Great Bay Area (CGBA) |
| Ana Fanjul | PhD Student | University of León, Spain | Regional Entrepreneurship and Well-Being |
| Eirik Finseraas | PhD student | University of Bergen, Norway | A Comparative Analysis of Legal Frameworks Regulating Offshore Wind Farm Licensing Within the North Sea Basin |
| Grete Gansauer | PhD Student | Montana State University, USA | Building the ‘left behind’ Back Better? Federal place-based policy and the US rural development challenge |
| Ruoyun Gao | Academic Researcher | Shandong University, Beijing, China | Policy Strategic Evaluation and Collaborative Potential Study of Sino-British CCUS Enterprises amidst Dual Carbon Goals |
| Yukun Gao | PhD Student | Peking University, Beijing, China | How to boost sustainability and equity in housing decisions and daily mobility: Investigations from the joint perspectives of behavioural economics and urban studies |
| David Grinlinton | Academic Researcher | University of Auckland, New Zealand | The history and development of the common law doctrine of ‘waste’ from feudal times to the present day |
| Sven Gruener | Academic Researcher | Georg-August University, Gottingen, Germany | The association of crises and information avoidance |
| Yunxia Guo | PhD Student | Beijing Institute of Technology, China | Research on the influence mechanism and policy transmission effect of mobile payment on inclusive green growth |
| Ivan Hajdukovic | Academic Researcher | EMEA (Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association) Geneva, Switzerland | EMEA project collaboration |
| Mengyao Han | Academic Researcher | Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China | Investment models, geographical deployment and strategies portfolios and the related knock-on environmental and ecological effects of renewable energy investment in developing countries |
| Ping He | PhD Student | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Spatiotemporal characteristics and driving factors of sustainable urban land use efficiency in Hong Kong |
| Ruoshui He | PhD Student | Jonkoping University, Sweden | Investigating the Schooling and Wellbeing Consequences of University Admission Competition in various counties |
| Hafizah Ismail | Academic Researcher | University Utara Malaysia, Kedah, Malaysia | The Hedonic Approach to Examining the Impacts of Flood on Property Value in Malaysia |
| Suraya Ismail | Academic Researcher | Khazanah Research Institute, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Housing for the Poor” or ‘Poor Housing’? |
| Zerun Jin | PhD Student | Peking University, Beijing, China | Smart grid innovation in China |
| Eleanor Johansson | PhD Student | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | Identify the role of knowledge and innovation to support a transition towards sustainable and resilient agriculture and how economically and environmentally sustainable farm performance can be measured and traced over time and geography |
| Hussaen Kahachi | Academic Researcher | University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq | Future decision-making mechanisms for sustainable urban regeneration in old cities |
| Zhenyu Kang | Academic Researcher | Guizhou Education University Business School, China | The influence of two-way FDI on China’s industrial development |
| Rachael Kawasaki | PhD Student | Kyoto University, Japan | Comparative study of the effect of local government responsiveness and autochthonous attitudes on migrant integration in the municipalities within the UK |
| Yongseong Kim | Academic Researcher | Supreme Court of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea | Study on housing lease disputes |
| Donggyun Ku | Academic Researcher | University of Seoul, Republic of Korea | Planning support systems for net-zero urban transport |
| Edith Kuiper | Academic Researcher | State University of New York, USA | Dynamic system theory and feminist economic analysis |
| Ginevra Le Moli | Academic Researcher | Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge, UK | Who owns natural resources? |
| Weimin Li | Academic Researcher | Liaoning University, China | Innovation, clusters and economic change in the context of China’s mega-regional economy |
| Chengcheng Liu | PhD Student | Peking University College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Shenzhen, China | Heterogenous impact on travel behaviour and related greenhouse gas emissions from metro expansion – a case study of Shenzhen |
| Chong Liu | Academic Researcher | Tsinghua University, China | Circuit of Capital, Fictitious Capital and Economic Fictionalisation |
| Tea Lonnroth | PhD Student | Aalto University School of Engineering, Finland | Land use policies and their effects on housing markets |
| Manfredi Marciante | Academic Researcher | LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy | The Modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty and EU policy |
| Anna Carolina Martins | PhD Student | Institute of Economics of the University of Campinas, Brazil | Evaluating green energy investment in a K+S based model |
| Gaston Medici Colombo | Academic Researcher | University of Barcelona, Spain | The interlinkages and synergies between the Inter-American System, the Escazú Agreement and the flourishing phenomenon of climate litigation in the domestic fora of the region are key to reach a more nuanced understanding of the foreseeable effects of the Opinion |
| Katri Nousiainen | PhD Student | Harvard University, USA | Legal Design and Ethics in Commercial Contracts |
| Hugo Pascal | PhD Student | Paris Pantheon Assas University, France | The legal aspects of the geopolitics of the energy transition |
| Julia Passabi | Academic Researcher | Roma Tre University, School of Economics, Italy | Analysis of the connection between urbanisation, environmental externalities, and house prices in countries beyond China through papers using hedonic price modelling |
| Rick Peiser | Academic Researcher | Harvard University, USA | New Towns for the Twenty-First Century: A Guide to Planned Communities Worldwide |
| Junxian Piao | PhD Student | East China Normal University, Shanghai, China | Place does matter? Discover the innovation spillover impact of local innovation hubs led by co-working spaces- A comparative study between UK and China |
| Peter Phelps | Academic Researcher | University of Leeds, UK | UK Productivity and Inequality |
| Lefeng Qiu | Academic Researcher | Institute of Land and Urban-Rural Development, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, China | Sustainability of land use from the perspective of economic and ecological trade-offs (UK and China) |
| Malavika Rao | Academic Researcher | The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland | The International Legal Infrastructure Underpinning Food Flows and Distribution |
| Orkun Saka | Academic Researcher | University of London, UK | Istanbul or Constantinople? Evidence from a natural experiment on the benefits and costs of political misalignment |
| Julieta Sarno | PhD Student | Leuphana University, Germany | The Role of Principles in International Environmental Governance: Managing Interactions within the Biodiversity Regime |
| Anna Sciacca | PhD Student | University of Milan-Biocca, Italy | The intersection between environmental law and criminal law with particular interest in the prosecution and sanctioning of environmental crimes |
| Lily Shen | Academic Researcher | Clemson University, USA | The potential applications of machine learning techniques in the UK's real estate, mortgage, and housing sectors |
| Eva Seewald | Academic Researcher | Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade, Leibniz University, Germany | Long-term household panel project in Thailand & Vietnam (TVSEP) and The Impact of Small- and Medium-Size Hydro-Power Plants on Farming in Rural Vietnam |
| Javier Silvestre | Academic Researcher | University of Zaragoza, Spain | Retaining population with water? Irrigation policies and depopulation in Spain, 1900-2011 |
| Yarong Song | PhD Student | Peking University, China | Integrating ecosystem services into Environmental regulations in China: Ecology, Economics and Law |
| Yoshinori Sumiya | Academic Researcher | Momoyama Gakuin (St Andrew's) University, Osaka, Japan | The collaborative relationships between business, government and academia in the management of BIDs (Business Improvement Districts) |
| Rallou Taratori | PhD Student | IQS University, Barcelona | Left behind people in left behind places |
| Kailan Tian | Academic Researcher | Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China | Digital economy and global value chains |
| Malte Toetzke | PhD Student | ETH Zurich, Switzerland | How do firm networks boost development and scale of clean energy technologies? |
| Giorgio Tosato | PhD Student | Politechnico di Torino, Rome, Italy | to address urban complexity through specific tools and methods “borrowed” from Applied Mathematics, developing a dynamics to predict possible evolutionary scenarios of metropolitan areas |
| Daniel Vargas | Academic Researcher | FGV Economics School, San Paulo | Green Transition in the Tropics |
| Jie Wang | PhD Student | East China Normal University, China | Interaction between policy, university action and faculty academic engagement |
| Yanying Wang | PhD Student | Peking University, China | Understanding the impact of environmental risks on health: An analysis of individual preferences and adaptation behaviours |
| Honghong Wei | Academic Researcher | Shanghai University, China | How does urban agglomeration help to achieve the carbon abatement target? |
| Lizhao Xiao | PhD Student | University of Hong Kong, China | Optimal Investment Allocation for Construction Safety: A Dual Approach Using QFD and Modern Portfolio Theory |
| Chenghuai Xu | PhD Student | University of Edinburgh, UK | A comparative legal analysis of climate-related information disclosure regimes in Chinese green corporate bonds |
| Hongwei Xu | Academic Researcher | Dongbei University of Finance & Economics, China | Interaction between policy, university action and faculty academic engagement |
| Jin Xu | Academic Researcher | Southeast University, Nanjing, China | Revealing digital divide through spatial analysis of social media data in rural China |
| Tong Xu | Academic Researcher | Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences | Energy Innovation for the Plastics Project |
| Yanny Yu | Academic Researcher | Weihai Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Shandong University | The Environmental Justice in China |
| Caiwei Zhang | PhD Student | University of Hong Kong | Policy uncertainty and industrial land development: Evidence from China |
| Enjia Zhang | PhD Student | Tsinghua University School of Architecture, Beijing, China | Inward Expansion: The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on the Penetration of Urban Recreational Services |
| Wei Zhang | PhD Student | Peking University, China | How does the double-edged sword of industrial policy work in periphery regions? — a case study on medical industry in China |
| Ning (Nick) Zhang | Academic Researcher | Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Shandong, China | Environmental Regulation and worker benefits: Evidence from China |
| Xucai Zhang | PhD Student | Ghent University, Belgium | 1 Completing mobility flow generation without using historical data 2 Constructing and refining quantitative indicators of the region's homogeneity |
| Qianyu Zhao | Academic Researcher | Sichuan University, China | Urbanization and Land Transfer in China: Interaction and Benefit Allocation |
| Sudan Zhao | Academic Researcher | Sichuan University, China | Analysis of Interrelationships among the Elements of Chinese Rural Poverty Alleviation |
| Zeyu Zhao | PhD Student | Tsinghua University, Beijing, China | 1) Enhancing Human Needs-Orientated Urban Resilience 2) Divergence Between Human Needs-Orientated Resilience and Physical Function-Orientated Resilience |
| Lin Zhou | PhD Student | Technical University of Munich, Germany | Social capital, trust and cooperation performance in rural China |
| Min Zhou | Academic Researcher | Suzhou University of Science and Technology, China | Manufacturing Spatial Scenario Simulation and Guiding Strategy under the influence of institution of Big Cities in China and England |
| Daoye Zhu | PhD Student | Peking University, China | Developing a planning support tool for extracting city-level land-use and building characteristics in Chinese cities using remote sensing data and adaptive machine learning techniques |