Dr Yan Tan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Population at the University of Adelaide. She is the Director of the Hugo Population and Migration Program at Stretton Institute. Yan’s research falls within the field of population and environmental studies, with a focus on migration. She is the lead CI on two ARC-funded Discovery Projects (DP230103060, DP170101726); she was earlier ARC QEII Fellow/CI (DP110105522). Her research has advanced the state of knowledge in migration, displacement, and resettlement within China and with Australia; created analytical frameworks and techniques to unravel migration–diaspora–development relationships; reshaped migration theory where data had been incomplete, inaccurate, or definitionally vague.