Staff
Get to know the team in Asian Studies.
Many of us work on a hybrid basis - a mixture of on-campus and digitally.
Our working hours are Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm (UK time).
Please email us in the first instance, and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
Undergraduate enquiries
Email us about undergraduate study in Asian Studies
Postgraduate enquiries
Email us about taught postgraduate programmes in Asian Studies
Email us about postgraduate research in Asian Studies
Head of Asian Studies
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Role | Phone number | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Hammond | Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and Society | Daniel.Hammond@ed.ac.uk | +44(0)131 650 6941 |
Administrative staff
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Role | Phone number | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annie Kelly | Senior Administrator | annie.kelly@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0) 131 650 4167 |
| Mr Callum Lennie | Learning and Teaching Administrator | Callum.Lennie@ed.ac.uk | |
| Vivien Macnish Porter | Undergraduate Administrator | Vivien.Macnish-Porter@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3528 |
Academic staff
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Role | Phone number | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ian Astley | Senior Lecturer in Japanese (retired) | Ian.Astley@ed.ac.uk | |
| Sakie Chiba-Mooney | Language Assistant in Japanese | Sakie.Chiba@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3064 |
| Joachim Gentz | Chair of Chinese Philosophy and Religion | Joachim.Gentz@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3681 |
| Natascha Gentz | Chair of Chinese Studies | Natascha.Gentz@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4229 |
| Daniel Hammond | Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and Society | Daniel.Hammond@ed.ac.uk | +44(0)131 650 6941 |
| Xuelei Huang | Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies | Xuelei.Huang@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 8985 |
| Hephzibah Israel | Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies | H.Israel@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4467 |
| Youngmi Kim | Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies | Youngmi.Kim@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 651 1363 |
| Duo Luan | Lecturer in Chinese Studies, Head of Chinese Language | duo.luan@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4274 |
| Abigail MacBain | Lecturer in Premodern Japanese Studies | abigail.macbain@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 651 1358 |
| Mark McLeister | Lecturer in Chinese Studies | Mark.McLeister@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4232 |
| Professor Aaron William Moore | Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations | aaron.moore@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4225 |
| Atsuko Moriyama | Language Assistant in Japanese | atsuko.moriyama@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 |
| Fumiko Narumi-Munro (FHEA) | Lecturer in Japanese | F.Narumi-Munro@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 6971 |
| Helen Parker | Lecturer in Japanese | Helen.Parker@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4230 |
| Chris Perkins | Senior Lecturer in Japanese | Chris.Perkins@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4174 |
| Cen Qiguo | Language Assistant in Chinese | Cen.Qiguo@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4044 |
| Christopher Rosenmeier | Lecturer in Chinese | christopher.rosenmeier@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4357 |
| Akihiko Shimizu | Teaching Fellow in Japanese | akihiko.shimizu@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 8294 |
| Holly Stephens | Lecturer in Japanese and Korean Studies | holly.stephens@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 8984 |
| Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt | Lecturer in Japanese | Y.M.Sturt@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4228 |
| Esther Tyldesley | Teaching Fellow in Chinese | Esther.Tyldesley@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4464 |
| Julian Ward | Senior Lecturer in Chinese | Julian.Ward@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 4226 |
| Robert Winstanley-Chesters | Teaching and Research Fellow in Korean Studies | r.winstanley-chesters@ed.ac.uk | |
| Lisha (Lisa) Xu | Teaching Fellow in Chinese and Translation Studies | Lisha.Xu@ed.ac.uk | |
| Min Yue | Teaching Fellow in Chinese | min.yue@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0) 131 650 4231 |
| xiaonan zhuang | Full-time Teaching Staff | xzhuang@ed.ac.uk |
Tutors
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| Su-Hyun Kang | Korean tutor | |
| Mihoko Pooley | Japanese Tutor | mihoko.pooley@ed.ac.uk |
| Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins, Dr | Tutor, Japanese Studies | hiromi.sasamoto-collins@ed.ac.uk |
| CHEN Teng | Chinesee Tutor | v1tchen6@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
| GAO Xiaoning | Chinese Tutor | v1xgao2@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
| HU Jialu | Chinese Tutor | v1jhu33@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
| JIN Xihong | Chinese Teacher | xihongking@ed.ac.uk |
| LIU Yuhan | Chinese Teacher | v1yliu28@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
| UDINOV Merlin | Chinese Tutor | v1mudino@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
| WANG Xiaoming | Chinese Tutor | v1xwan18@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
| WU Zimin | Chinese Tutor | v1zwu15@exseed.ed.ac.uk |