Simona A. Grano is Senior Lecturer at the University of Zurich and Director of the Taiwan Studies Project at UZH (https://www.aoi.uzh.ch/de/sinologie/forschung/taiwan-studies-project.html). She completed her Ph.D. in Chinese Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy. She has held research positions and taught China Studies  and Taiwan Studies at her alma mater, at the university of Zurich in Switzerland  and at National Cheng'chi University in Taiwan. She has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Hong Kong and is a research fellow of the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), in Tübingen, Germany. She is currently a research associate of SOAS for the year 2021 (SOAS Staff). Simona's regional expertise centers on the People's Republic of China as well as on Taiwan and Hong Kong. At the University of Zürich Simona teaches several courses related to China's political landscape and society as well as on Taiwan's social and political transformations in the past 30 years (BA level).

Grano, Simona Alba; Wu, Helena (2021).  Xi Jinping’s 2.0 version of the “Letter to Compatriots in Taiwan”. University of Nottingham: Taiwan Insight.
Andornino, Giovanni; Grano, Simona Alba (2021).  Le Relazioni tra Repubblica Popolare Cinese e Taiwan. In: Andornino, Giovanni. Cina. Prospettive di un paese in trasformazione. Bologna: Societa Editrice Il Mulino, 305-318.
Grano, Simona Alba (2021).  China will die Welt Neu Ordnen. Zürich: UZH Magazine.
Grano, Simona Alba (2021).  Ho, Ming-sho: Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques, 74(3):739-742.
Migotto, Osvaldo; Grano, Simona Alba.  I rapporti tra Cina e USA destinati a rimanere tesi anche nell’era Biden. In: Corriere del Ticino, 22 Januar 2021, p.5.
Grano, Simona Alba (2020).  Interactions between Environmental Civil Society and the State during the Ma Ying-jeou and Tsai Ing-wen Administrations in Taiwan. In: Chiavacci, David; Grano, Simona Alba. Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia : Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 33-58.
 Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia : Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth. Edited by: Chiavacci, David; Grano, Simona Alba; Obinger, Julia (2020). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Häuptli, Lukas; Grano, Simona Alba.  Wie sich China in der Schweiz einmischt. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 11 April 2020, p.11.
Zoll, Patrick; Grano, Simona Alba.  Warum die Weltgesundheitsorganisation die Diktatur China hofiert und der Demokratie Taiwan die kalte Schulter zeigt. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 6 April 2020, p.1.
Grano, Simona Alba.  Die Treue der Landbevölkerung und das Fehlen einer organisierten Opposition – warum Xi Jinpings Herrschaft die Gesundheitskrise überstehen wird. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 10 March 2020, p.10.
Agamennone, Edoardo; Andornino, Giovanni B; et al; Grano, Simona Alba (2020).  La Cina Sviluppi interni, proiezione esterna. Torino: T.Wai (Torino World Affairs).
Chiavacci, David (2020).  New immigration, civil activism and identity in Japan: influencing the ‘strong’ state. In: Chiavacci, David; Grano, Simona Alba; Obinger, Julia. Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth. Amsterdam, 187-215.
Chiavacci, David; Grano, Simona Alba (2020).  A New Era of Civil Society and State in East Asian Democracies. In: Chiavacci, David; Grano, Simona Alba; Obinger, Julia. Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia : Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 9-30.
Inhauser, Florian; Grano, Simona Alba (2019).  Hongkongs Schatten auf Taiwan – Am Anfang stand ein Mord. Zurich: SRFglobal des Schweizer Fernsehens.
Grano, Simona Alba; Tenisch, Anneliese (2019).  Xi's Personenkult in China. Zurich: SRF4News.
Grano, Simona Alba; Zhang, Yuheng (2019).  Anti-nuclear protest in China. In: Wright, Teresa. Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China. Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 280-289.
Grano, Simona Alba (2019).  Climate change politics: can these raise Taiwan’s international recognition?. Nottingham: University of Nottingham.
Grano, Simona Alba.  From ‘Developmentalism’ to Ecological Awareness and Back: the Example of the Greater China Region in Comparative Perspective. 2018, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
Grano, Simona Alba (2017).  The evolution of the anti-nuclear movement in Taiwan since 2008. In: Fell, Dafydd. Taiwan's Social Movements under Ma Ying-jeou: From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers. Abingdon: Routledge, 154-176.
Grano, Simona Alba (2016).  The Anti-nuclear power movement. In: Schubert, Gunter. Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan. London and New York: Routledge, 297-312.