Dr. Min Tang is a research professor at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. She holds a PhD in Architecture from the KU Leuven (Belgium) and a PhD in Geography from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France). Specialising in Global South urbanism, she conducts multi-sited activities across urban peripheries of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe with multi-linguistic working ability (EN, FR, JP, CN). Her research interest lies in the decolonial and situated knowledge production of the urban, through critical examinations of moving human bodies, planning ideas and city-making practices. The aim is to understand how these moves trigger localised institutional and grassroots practices that continuously territorialise urban peripheries. The primary tools of inquiry are intensive ethnographic studies, action research, critical cartography, and other qualitative and visual methods.

She was the founder of "Asian-African studies on the Move" young scholar network, and serves as editorial board of the journal CITY: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action.