Zhaoyuan Fan is a Visiting Academic at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing from January 2026 to January 2027. She holds a PhD in Quantitative Economics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and completed her postdoctoral research at Nanjing University. Currently, she serves as Director of the Department of Public Administration, Associate Professor, and Supervisor for Academic and Professional Master’s students at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Dr Fan has led more than ten research projects at the national and provincial levels, including Research on the Formation Mechanism and Optimization Path of Shrinking Cities (National Social Science Fund), Population Mobility Patterns and Their Influencing Mechanisms in the Post-Pandemic Era (China Postdoctoral Science Foundation), and Research on the Impacts of Population Ageing and the Two-Child Policy on Household Consumption (National Statistical Science Research Project). She has also contributed to major national research initiatives, such as the National Social Science Fund Major Projects Research on Public Policies and Mechanisms for Achieving Active Ageing and Research on Active Responses to Population Ageing from the Perspective of High-Quality Population Development, as well as the MOE Philosophy and Social Science Major Project Research on Population Change and the Mechanisms, Paths and Policies for Advancing Common Prosperity.

Her core research focuses on population migration, mobility and high-quality population development. To date, she has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles in SSCI and CSSCI indexed journals and authored three academic monographs. During her visit to the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, Dr Fan will continue her research on population migration, population dynamics and high-quality regional development, with the aim of fostering greater interdisciplinary academic exchange between China and the international community in the field of population studies.