Lunting Wu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin, an associate in the Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script" and the Center for European Integration at Freie Universität Berlin, and a fellow at FGV Europe and the Instituto do Oriente of the University of Lisbon. He holds a PhD in International Relations from Freie Universität Berlin.