Yiqing Gan (Ph.D. in Sociology) is a lecturer and research fellow at the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (Fudan IAS). She earned her doctoral degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and gained extensive research and teaching experience during her postdoctoral fellowship at the same institution. Her research areas encompass family demography, immigration and migration, neighborhood effects, and life history analysis. She has published extensively in esteemed SSCI and CSSCI journals, including Cities, Social Science Research, Demographic Research, American Behavior Scientist, Journal of Family Issues, and Shehui (Chinese Journal of Sociology).