Min Chen#
| Membership Number: | 7146 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | http://schools.njnu.edu.cn/geog/person/min-chen |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8922-8789 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025 - present Director, Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education of PRC, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- 2024 - present Chair, Academic Committee, School of Geography(The Geography discipline ranks top five in China), Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- 2024 - present President (2024)/Chair of Board of Directors (2025), International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS)
- 2023 - present Chair, Young Scientist Innovation Network of International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE)
- 2023 - present Co-Editor-In-Chief, Environmental Modelling & Software
- 2020 - present Vice-President, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs)
- 2020 - present Chair, Modeling Geographic System Committee of International Geographical Union (IGU)
- 2019 - present Chair, Young Scientist Working Group in Asian Geographic Associate (AGA)
- 2015 - present Full Professor (Distinguished professor of Jiangsu province), Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education of PRC, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- 2009 - 2015 Post-doctoral Fellow & Research Associate, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Fields of Scholarship
- Sustainable development
- Geography
- Geographic modeling and simulation
- Virtual geographic environment
- Geographic information science
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Biennial Medal, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs)
- 2024 Fellow, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (MSSANZ), (Only 2-3 are elected every two years)
- 2024 Fellow, Association of American Geographers (AAG), (Only around 15 are elected annually among more than 15000 members)
- 2023 Top Ten Research Advances, Chinese Society of Land Economics
- 2023 Annual Outstanding Contribution Expert, Chinese Society of Land Economics
- 2023 Natural Resources Science and Technology Award in China, Ministry of Natural Resources of PRC
- 2023 Second prize of National Teaching Achievement Award, Ministry of Education of PRC
- 2022 Outstanding Teaching Achievement Award, the 10th University GIS Forum in China
- 2021 Top Ten Research Advances in Chinese Geographical Science, Geographical Society of China, (the top one)
- 2021 Top Prize of Progress Award in Geographic Information Technology, China Association for Geospatial Information Society, (top one over 280 projects)
- 2021 Global Frontier Science and Technology Young Scientist, WDGC
- 2020 Youth Science and Technology Award in Jiangsu Province, China
- 2020 Second Prize of Natural Science Award in Jiangxi Province, China
- 2019 Fellow, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), 2019(Only 2-3 are elected every two years)
- 2019 Youth Science and Technology Award, Geographical Society of China
- 2018 Waldo Tobler Young Researcher Award in GIScience, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2018 First Prize in Natural Science Award, Ministry of Education of PRC
- 2016 Second Prize in Natural Science awarded, Education Department of Jiangsu Province
- 2016 6th University Innovative Personality in GIS of China
- 2014 Second Prize in Natural Science awarded, Ministry of Education of PRC
