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Kun Qian is currently an Associate Professor and Research Futures Coordinator at the Institute for Asian and Oceanian Studies, Kyushu University. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Kyushu University in 2012. He worked as a consultant at the Financial Management & Control (FMC) sector of Abeam Consulting Ltd. (Tokyo) from 2012-2014, as an assistant professor at the Institute of Decision Science for a Sustainable Society, Kyushu University from 2014-2021, as a lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities, Fukuoka University from 2021-2022, and arrived at his present post in April of 2022.

His academic background is in cognitive, experimental, and cultural psychology. He is now conducting research on the psychology and behavior related to several topics of SDGs, such as food issues, the COVID-19 pandemic, happiness and well-being, and cultural diversity, by using online or fieldwork-based methods in ASEAN, Finland, Japan, China, etc. He is an International Committee member of the Japanese Psychological Association, and a member of the Chinese Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association. His undergraduate degree was in communication and advertising, and now he is a freelance graphic designer. He is also a director at Kyushu Open University, a general incorporated association based in Fukuoka, Japan.