I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs, an Associate Director of the Centre for Public Affairs and Law, and the Director of the Political Analysis Lab,  at the City University of Hong Kong. My research interests include comparative politics, contentious politics, political sociology, political communication, and research methods, with a focus on Hong Kong, China, and East and Southeast Asia.
​     My work has appeared in Political Communication, Political Studies, Sociological Methodology, New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, China Quarterly, China Journal,  among others. I recently co-edited with Sebastian Veg “Revisiting the Public Sphere in 20th and 21st Century China” in China Quarterly and with Francis Lee “Organizing without Organizations: Networked Movements in Asia” in Social Movement Studies.
     I received a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics in 2015. Prior to joining City University, I worked at Hong Kong Baptist University and the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China.

Professional services
I am currently a Co-Editor of Social Movement Studies, the Vice President of the Hong Kong Political Science Association, and the Principal Investigator for Hong Kong of the World Values Survey Association, and an editorial board member of several academic journals such as ​The China Quarterly.

Research collaboration 
My research has been supported by the American Political Science Association, Central Policy Unit, French National Research Agency, Hong Kong University Grants Committee, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Hong Kong Policy Innovation and Coordination Office, and Hong Kong Institute for Data Science.

​Community outreach
My research findings or commentaries have been cited in more than 200 times in government agencies, NGOs and mass media, including the Atlantic, Asahi Shimbun, BBC, CNN, NPR, RTHK, Economist, Guardian, LeMonde, MingPao, Spiegel, Strait Times, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Time Magazine, Times Higher Education, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, among others.