► Academic Background
 

Stefan Heeb holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Geneva (2020) with a dissertation on institutional change in Japan’s coordinated capitalism. He earned triple BAs from the University of Geneva, in Sociology, in Philosophy and Russian Studies, as well as in Japanese and Chinese Studies, and an MA in Asian Studies in a joint programme from the Graduate Institute Geneva and the University of Geneva. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo (2015–16), at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne (2018), and at the University of Nanjing (2026).
From 2021 to 2024 he served as Assistant Professor at Kanagawa University in Yokohama.

► Research Interests
 

• Comparative institutional analysis (political economy / sociology), particularly in Japan and Western European countries, and increasingly in China
• Civilisational studies (“What is ‘the West’?”)
• Language teaching between Western Europe and East Asia (e.g., a comprehensive approach to teaching Western European languages to Japanese native speakers)

► Personal Statement
 

Stefan Heeb is interested in everything that connects people, particularly in ideas, society, and languages.