Prof. Baozhang Chen
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Professor Dr. CHEN Baozhang has long been dedicated to the development and optimization of surface earth system models, data-model assimilation, the interaction between the carbon cycle and climate change, and research on spatial scale transformation techniques, continuously pushing the boundaries of academic research and making significant original contributions.
Dr. CHEN is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He serves as the Chief Professor for Land Surface Ecological Modeling and Analysis at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an expert reviewer for CAS academician elections, a review expert for the Ministry of Education’s “Changjiang Scholar Award Program,” and a committee member for the Ministry of Ecology and Environment’s Carbon Monitoring Pilot Program. He previously served as the Chief Scientist of the National Meteorological Administration’s Greenhouse Gas and Carbon Neutrality Monitoring and Evaluation Center. Dr. Chen has held research associate positions at the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia, and a professor position at the Kwantlen Polytechnic University. In 2009, he returned to China after being selected for the “Hundred Talents Program” of CAS under the category of outstanding talent.
Dr. CHEN has received numerous awards, including: Second Prize of the Ministry of Natural Resources’ Science and Technology Progress Award (2023, ranked 1st out of 5); Second Prize of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment’s Environmental Protection Technology Progress Award (2019, ranked 6th out of 7). Dr. Chen has also received over 20 individual academic awards, including: the Third Young Geographical Science and Technology Award from the Geographical Society of China (1995),Outstanding Young Key Teacher in Jiangsu Province (1996), the young and middle-aged leader in science and technology under the Jiangsu Provincial”333 High-Level Talent Training Project”
Prof. Lei SHEN
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Professor Dr. Lei SHEN is a leading scientist in the area of natural resources economics and management, a geographer and geologist, an urban and spatial planner, with 20 years’ experience as the former secretary general, vice-president and executive secretary general of China Society of Natural Resources from 2004 to 2024.
Dr. SHEN has worked over 35 years in energy policy and mineral economics, regional development planning, resources- based city transformation and sustainable development, and energy and mineral security analysis. He has been teaching the graduate course of Resource Economics since 2006 at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(UCAS) in China; has trained and guided 45 master and doctoral students, including three international students from countries such as Laos and Rwanda and 16 postdoctoral fellows, published over 300 academic articles in Nature Climate Change, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Global Change Biology, Science bulletin, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Energy, Energy Policy, Renewable Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, Energies, Ecological Indicators, Journal of Cleaner Production, Natural Resource Forum, Resources Policy, Environmental Policy and Law, Environmental Science & Policy, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Journal of Environmental Management, Science of The Total Environment, Water, Cities, Sustainability, Sustainable Cities and Society, and others, with an H-index of 82 for Web of Science, and a total of 35756 SCI citations (34778 citations from others); published over 10 monographs; won 8 software copyrights and 1 invention patent and 6 awards; submitted more than 20 major consulting suggestion reports to different governments and corporates.
Dr. SHEN led and actively involved in lots of multi-lateral natural resource comprehensive survey and research cooperations in Laos, Myanmar, Kenya, Pakistan, Russia, jointly establishing three oversea research centers in Kenya, Laos and Pakistan.
Prof. Feng Zhou
Hohai University, China
Feng Zhou is a professor at the College of Geography and Remote Sensing, Hohai University. He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and a Young Scholar under the Ministry of Education’s “Changjiang Scholars Program.” He currently serves as the Dean of the College of Geography and Remote Sensing at Hohai University and the Director of the Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Watershed Soil and Water Processes. He is also a member of three international organizations, including the Global Nitrous Oxide Budget Scientific Committee, serves as associate editor or editorial board member for five international SCI journals such as Global Biogeochemical Cycles, and holds leadership positions as Chair of the Nitrogen Working Group of the Soil Science Society of China, Vice Chair of the Regional Ecology Committee of the Ecological Society of China, and Vice Chair of the Agricultural Resources and Environment Branch of the Chinese Society of Agronomy.
He has long been engaged in environmental geography research, employing an integrated approach combining networked observations, controlled experiments, and modeling simulations to investigate the responses and adaptations of soil-crop systems to extreme climate change. His work reveals new mechanisms of soil nitrogen cycling and crop physiological-ecological processes, advancing new insights into agricultural responses to climate change. Centered on these research themes, he has undertaken nine projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China—including Distinguished Young Scholars, key projects, international cooperation, scientific activities, general, and youth programs—and two national key research and development projects. He has published over 120 SCI papers, including 17 articles in top-tier journals such as Nature, PNAS, Nature Water, Nature Food, Nature Geoscience, and Nature Communications. His research achievements have been recognized with first-class awards for scientific and technological progress from the Ministry of Education, Yunnan Province, Hubei Province, and the Dayu Science and Technology Progress Award. He was also honored in China’s Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances in Ecological Environment for 2021, 2022, and 2023, as well as receiving the National Youth Geographic Science and Technology Award.
Prof. Hongjun Su
Hohai University, China
Hongjun Su, Professor and PhD supervisor, is the Associate Dean of the College of Geography and Remote Sensing at Hohai University. He is a recipient of the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund and has been selected as an outstanding young backbone teacher under Jiangsu Province’s "Qinglan Project" for higher education institutions. He also serves as Associate Editor of the international journal IEEE JSTARS, a member of the Theory and Methods Working Committee of the China Geographic Information Industry Association, and a member of the Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Committee of the China Society of Surveying and Mapping, among other professional roles.
Prof. Su has long been engaged in research on hyperspectral remote sensing, intelligent processing of remote sensing information, and water resource remote sensing. He has led four projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and over twenty projects including those funded by the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation. He has published more than 80 high-quality academic papers, received multiple authorized national invention patents, and authored several textbooks and monographs.
Prof. Jialong Sun
Jiangsu Ocean University, China
Jialong Sun, male, born in November 1977, is a professor and master's supervisor, currently serving as the Dean of the College of Marine Technology and Surveying and Mapping. His main teaching and research areas include underwater acoustic detection and underwater navigation and positioning. He has led and participated in more than ten national and provincial-level scientific research projects, published over 50 academic papers, authored two monographs, and holds 14 authorized national invention patents. He has received numerous awards, including three Second Prizes of the National Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology Progress Award, one Second Prize of the National Marine Science and Technology Progress Award, one Third Prize of the Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, the Special Prize for GIS Teaching Achievement in the First National University GIS Teaching Achievements Awards, one Second Prize of the Jiangsu Provincial Teaching Achievement Award, as well as more than ten other provincial-level or higher honors. Under his guidance, students have won over ten provincial-level or higher awards, including the Bronze Prize at the provincial level of the “Challenge Cup” National College Students Entrepreneurship Competition and the First Prize of the National College Students Surveying and Mapping Discipline Innovation and Entrepreneurship Intelligent Competition.