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Zhengfeng Wang is a historian of the built environment. Her research at Paderborn University explores the emergence of data centers and the history of cooling politics. Before moving to Germany, she was a postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Humanities at Leiden University and a research fellow with the International Institute for Asian Studies – Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme programme, where she examined food, refrigeration, and urban space in treaty-port China. She earned her PhD from University College Dublin, where she also served as a postdoctoral researcher on a sustainability and built heritage project funded by the Irish Research Council.