Viktor Eszterhai earned his Ph.D. degree in 2018 at the Eötvös Loránd University Modern and Contemporary History Doctoral Program. He holds an MA in History and Geography, and a BA in Psychology. He holds a MA in History and Geography and a BA in Psychology. Between 2014 and 2015, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of International Relations of Tsinghua University under the joint intergovernmental scholarship program of Balassi Institute and the Chinese Government Scholarship Council. In 2017, he spent one month in Shanghai as a visiting scholar at Fudan Development Institute, Fudan University. From July 2015 to January 2021, he was a senior researcher at Pallas Athene Geopolitical Research Institute. From September 2019 to January 2021, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, Geoeconomics and Sustainable Development, Corvinus University, Budapest. Since January 2021, he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Foreign Economics and Trade. His main research areas are the cultural features of Chinese foreign policy, China-Europe relations, and non-Western schools of international relations.