Feng Qiushi received his doctoral degree from Duke University and is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also Deputy Head of the Department, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at NUS, and Vice President of the Population Association of Singapore (PAS).

His research fields are aging and health, population studies, and population and development, covering the micro, macro, and applied levels of aging research, respectively. He has published extensively in these fields and is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research across medicine, public health, and social sciences. He has been teaching social research methods and social statistics at the undergraduate and graduate levels for more than two decades, with five teaching awards. 

He is Co-Editor of Current Sociology, Associate Editor of Asian Population Studies, and Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Population Studies. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Nutrients, Aging and Health Research, Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Journal of Aging and Health, Research on Aging, and SSM-Population Health. He is editing two Springer book series, Advances in Studies of Aging and Health (with Dr. Danan Gu) and Asian Population Studies (with Prof Aris Ananta).

His research has been supported by the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP), the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE), and the National Medical Research Council (NMRC). He is PI for the MOE Tier-2 project, Lifelong Education for Aging Productively (LEAP) in Singapore, PI for MOE Tier-2 project, Analyses and Projections of Households and Living Arrangements in Six ASEAN Countries (HOUSEHOLD-ASEAN), and PI in charge of social determinants of health for SG70, a large multidisciplinary project on aging under NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.