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Professor of social anthropology from UiT The Arctic University of Norway; Visiting Professor at Arctic Studies Center of Liaocheng University; Research Affiliate of Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. He has long been committed to research in fields such as the relationship between humans and the environment, multimodality and critical heritage studies, infrastructure anthropology, and the relationships between ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples and the state. His fieldwork has been conducted in Inner Mongolia, Northeast and Southwest China, as well as Mongolia and the Arctic Sami region, with solid regional expertise. He has published numerous papers in international authoritative journals such as Asian Anthropology, International Journal of Heritage Studies, and Ethnos, and has presided over several important research projects funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the European Research Council (ERC), etc.