Professor Chen gets his Ph.D. degree from Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Academia Sinica in 1998. His research areas include Evolution of Basin and Orogenic Belt, Analysis of Structural Deformation, Neotectonics, and so on. He is dean, School of Earth Sciences,Executive Director of Research Centre for Structures in Oil and Gas Bearing Basins, Ministry of Education, Qiushi Professor of Zhejiang University (Tectonics and Structural Geology). He as published about 200 peer-reviewed papers, and contributed 7 books.