Zhongyuan Wang (Ph.D. in Political Science and China Studies) is an associate professor and research fellow at the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (IAS-Fudan). He received his doctoral degree from Leiden University (the Netherlands) and had ever worked as a lecturer in the Program of International Studies at Leiden University. His research interests include comparative political institutions, election studies, political representation, local politics and governance, European politics, and governmental big data. His work has appeared in European Political Science, China Information, and the Journal of Contemporary China. He currently serves as an editor for the Journal of Chinese Political Science.