Dr. Chuyu Liu is the Head of Research Area “Politics of Contemporary China” at the Department of Political Science. Previously, he worked as an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. He earned his PhD in Political Science from Pennsylvania State University (2019). His research focuses on ethnic conflict, energy transition, and China's presence in the Global South. His work has been published in Energy Policy, Environmental Politics, Energy Research & Social Science, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Comparative Economics, the Journal of East Asian Studies, Security Studies, and the China Review.