Dr. Han Cheng is a senior research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and an adjunct professor at Université Laval’s Graduate School of International Studies.
His research examines contemporary China’s global engagement, with a focus on China-Africa relations and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). He currently serves as a principal investigator for the Volkswagen Foundation-funded project, “China’s Science Silk Road and the New Geopolitics of Knowledge Production”. Together with Anna Lisa Ahlers (MPIWG) and Hang Zhou (Laval), he co-leads one of the first in-depth analyses of China’s international cooperation on science, technology and innovation under the BRI.
