Yuanyuan is an Associate Professor, Wenlan School of Business, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. Visiting Research Fellow, The Irish Longitudinal Study on Aging (TILDA), Trinity College Dublin. Graduated from Wuhan University (BA, MA) in 2009, University College Dublin (PhD) in 2013. She worked as a Teaching Fellow at University College Dublin in 2013-2014 and as a Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin in 2014-2016. She has been working at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law since 2016.
Her research covers a wide range of topics in health economics, population economics, and development economics. She has published more than 10 journal articles such as in Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, and Population Space and Place.