Dr. Mengling Cheng, Ph.D.

Early Career Collaborator

Dr. Mengling Cheng is an assistant professor at the East China University of Science and Technology, in Shanghai, China. She is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship awardee (2020) and a Humboldt Fellowship awardee (2018). Mengling got her M.A. degree from Peking University, China and her PhD degree from University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She has been working with Dr. Belsky since her doctoral research stay in the Columbia Aging Center in 2022. Dr. Cheng’s research focuses on social and biological determinants of aging and health from a life course and cross-national perspective. She uses advanced statistical models to analyze panel data from China, the U.S., and European countries. Follow Dr. Cheng’s publications on Google Scholar.