Chunlei Zhao is a researcher at the Institute for International Dispute Settlement at Tsinghua University, China. She received her PhD from Maastricht University, the Netherlands in 2020. Her research focuses on international trade and investment law and international dispute resolution. She was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European, and Regulatory Procedural Law and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. She has internship experience at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). She is also a practising lawyer in mainland China.