Julie Yu-Wen Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki, formerly chair of the Nordic Association of China Studies, and formerly editor-in-chief of Asian Ethnicity. She was also co-editor of Borderland Politics in Northern India (2014) and Tibetan Studies in Comparative Perspective (2012). From 2023-2025, she is in the EU-funded project “The EU in the Volatile Indo-Pacific Region”, where she leads the preparatory research and provides supervision and counselling to junior researchers. She also contributed to the ORCAxISDP Special Issue "The Dalai Lama's Succession: Strategic Realities of the Tibet Question."