Prof. Aeneas Zi Wang, Ph.D.

Aeneas Zi Wang is Professor of Sociology at the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Nanjing University. Prior to this, he was Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the French National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO) in Paris, as well as German Research Foundation-funded Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His primary research interests bridge migration, demography, education, and well-being/quality of life studies from cross-regional and transnational perspectives. He is the author of The Discursive Construction of Hierarchy in Japanese Society (De Gruyter 2020) and The Role of Language in the Wellbeing of Migrants (Routledge 2022).

He is a Visiting Fellow at CAS LMU in April and May 2025. In Munich he works together with Prof. Dr. Gabriele Vogt (LMU).