Dr. Teng-Hsiang Chen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Academia Sinica’s Institute of Sociology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Sociology from Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in 2019, with specific focuses on interaction strategies between strangers in Metropolis. Then, his research interest related to Social Interaction has expanded to the transnational transmission of Chinese Buddhism in Europe and the process of trust-building between users of Mobile dating applications. His ongoing research projects adopt a sociological approach to examining the development of Chinese Buddhist Organization Fo Guang Shan (FGS) in Germany, and the interaction between immigrants from Taiwan, believer of FGS and local residents.