Global

Since her assumption of the post in January 2022, she has been focused on international issues of strategic, long-term importance to the school and the hospital (ZJU4H). Her goal is to help the school develop strategy and services that facilitate faculty, clinicians and students to carry out dynamic international activities. Between 2017 and 2021, she served as the deputy director of the University's International Office, overseeing global communications, promoting the University's branding and reputation outside China, and providing guidance to student mobility, and exchange of scholars and minds. Before she took up the administrative role, Dr. Chen was a faculty member of the School of International Studies, working on discourse referents and coherence, usage-based effects on language and cognition, and history of linguistics. She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. Dr. Chen has extended visiting scholarships at Utrecht University, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and Stanford University.