Ling is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Government, University of Vienna. She received her Ph.D. in Journalism from Waseda University in Japan in 2022. She holds an M.A. in Journalism from Waseda University and a B.A. in Japanese from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in China.

Her research interests include political communication, media psychology, and political behavior.