Fanqi Zeng is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology, working on social network analysis projects.

His doctoral research in the Department of Engineering Mathematics at the University of Bristol focused on investigating complex social and natural systems using both top-down (model-driven) and bottom-up (data-driven) methodologies, such as agent-based modelling, network science, nonlinear dynamics and data science. It is a romantic jump from the world of mathematics to the world of sociology for him.

He is particularly interested in applying interdisciplinary approaches to understand various complex systems spanning from micro to macro. His research has been published in leading interdisciplinary journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.