Nicolas is a PhD candidate and research fellow in the research group "Infrastructures of China's Modernity". Before starting his work in Bonn, Nicolas gained research experience as student assistant at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) and as research fellow at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS). In addition to degrees in environmental engineering and management from the Technical University of Munich, Nicolas has enjoyed extensive language training in Mandarin at universities in Trier, Beijing and Shanghai. Nicolas is a scholarship holder and alumnus of the ERP and China programs of the German National Academic Foundation.

Science and Technology Studies | International Relations | China Studies | Innovation Studies 

How do ideas of 'connectivity' shape Chinese policy on digital technologies? What are the issues that arise, when connectivity has to be negotiated in transnational fora? And how are these issues resolved against the backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions? Nicolas Huppenbauer's dissertation "Negotiating Connectivity: The Coproduction of Chinese Technopolitics and Transnational Digital Infrastructure" investigates these questions through in-depth case studies on smart city and automated driving in China and abroad.

• Infrastructures of China’s Modernity and Their Global Constitutive Effects
• Infrastructures of Data

• Connectivity, centrality, and adaptation: The coproduction of political space in China’s standardization of autonomous driving technologies. In: Global Media and China, 8(3), September 2023, pp. 414-430.
• Infrastructuring Cyberspace: Exploring China's Imaginary and Practices of Selective Connectivity (mit Ying Huang & Maximilian Mayer). In: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 53(3), 27 (2022).
• "Vulnerabilities Disclosure mit chinesischer Prägung: Nutzen und Gefahren" (with J.-F. Vögele). In: Inside IT (Feb 01, 2022).
• “What the Huawei Case Can Teach Us About the U.S.-China Power Game” (with Lu C.). In: “Perspectives on the Global Economic Order in 2019”. Center for Strategic and International Studies (2019), Washington, D.C.
• 《中国与欧盟的网络安全法律原则与体系比较》[Cybersecurity Principles and Topics in the EU and China: A Comparison of Laws and Strategies] (with Li L. & Yang L.). 信息安全与通信保密 [Information Security and Communications Privacy]. No. 9 (2019), pp. 58-69.
• The EU and Huawei 5G Technology Against the Backdrop of the US-China Trade Friction” (mit Li L.). Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (2019), available on English and Chinese.

Last updated: 26 September, 2023