He is interested in the Chinese economy, both from a domestic perspective and an international perspective. He is particularly interested in political economy issues, e.g. the way the bureaucracy interacts with economic actors, and on how Chinese innovation policy works. Methodologically, he is very much interested in network economics, sentiment analysis, industrial organization, and game theory.
Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau is Head of the Science, Technology and Innovation Program at MERICS. Prior to that he worked at China Policy, a Beijing-based research and advisory company, where he set up the section education, science and innovation in 2017, and led it until December 2020. Jeroen spent over ten years in China.
He wrote about Chinese popular music in his PhD dissertation.
She specializes in China’s global economic and trade relations, EU trade and economic relations with Asia, EU external trade and investment policies, EU-Asia trade and investment linkages, bilateral economic, investment and trade analysis, bilateral trade potential and value chain analysis, China’s outward foreign direct investment patterns, international organisation of production and Global Value Chain analysis through social network methods. Chinese strategies for foreign influence, China’s soft power. Renminbi internationalisation, monetary and financial cooperation strategies along the Belt and Road Initiative.
Nis Grünberg’s research focuses on state-party governance, elite politics as well as China’s sustainable development. He has published on the Chinese energy sector and worked on state-owned enterprise reform.
Nis holds a PhD from Copenhagen Business School (CBS). Before joining MERICS, Nis was a postdoctoral fellow at CBS and at the Sino-Danish Center, Beijing.
