Zixuan Zhang

Zixuan Zhang is a Researcher and PhD candidate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, part of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin. He is affiliated with the DFG Project "Aesthetic Citizenship: Formations of the Gender Self and Imaginations of Urban Modernity in China's Periphery".

Zixuan Zhang holds academic qualifications including:

• Since August 2024: Research Assistant at PhD Project "Aesthetic Citizenship..."
• MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology from KU Leuven (2019-2022), with a thesis titled "Empowerment and Resistance: Negotiating Chinese Female Migrants' Digital Dating Experience in Europe" supervised by Prof. Katrien Pype
• BA in Journalism and International Relations from Renmin University of China (2014-2018)

His research interests focus on Feminist Anthropology, Anthropology of the Body, Gender and Sexualities, and Migration. His PhD project investigates how aesthetics intersects with citizenship, gender self-formation, and urban modernity in China's peripheral regions.

No scientific awards or publications are explicitly listed, though his current research contributes to critical discussions in gender studies and migration anthropology. He is a member of the DFG-funded project team exploring contemporary socio-cultural dynamics in urban China.