Following her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, Puo-An Wu received a Master of the Arts degree in European Literatures from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She has worked at the Institute for Latin-American Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin and has several years of professional experience as a translator. The second generation Chilean-Taiwanese is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the Institute of Romance Languages and Literature (Institut für Romanistik) of the Universität Potsdam.
As a personnel member of the Cluster of Excellence’s Management, Puo-An Wu is responsible for the translation of non-German-language material, general assistance of international scholars, and for the implementation of the Cluster’s internationalisation strategy.