With a multidisciplinary background, Ying Zheng is now studying property rights of real estates in urban area . As part of the ERC-funded project “RECOLAND”, the empirical research is about China.

Prior to the commencement of the PhD, she once worked as urban planner and consultant in real estate development. Ying Zheng firstly graduated from Nanjing University with the bachelor of engineering in Urban Planning. Then she was granted the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship to finish the joint master program “International Master of Science in Rural Development (IMRD)” in Ghent University, Humboldt University Berlin and Wageningen University.

With great interest in economics and business, she has followed the training programmes in International Finance and Business Economics.