Chair Professor Jian Lin, an internationally renowned geophysicist, member of Academia Europaea, member of European Academy of Sciences, member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, foreign academician of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, Dean of the Advanced Institute for Ocean Research, Chair Professor of the Southern University of Science and Technology, and director of Shenzhen Ocean University, has made fundamental contributions to global ocean sciences and earthquake research.
He led and engaged extensively in international ocean sciences as a Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), a faculty member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, and a Distinguished Research Fellow of the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He was elected a Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU); Fellow of Geological Society of America (GSA); Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Henry Bigelow Chair Award for Excellence in Oceanography; and Culpeper Young Scientist Award.
He had published a series of papers in top international journals such as Nature and Science, one of his earthquake research papers was ranked by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) as the most-cited paper in a decade.
Chen Siqi, currently serves as the Secretary-General of Southern University of Science and Technology,Executive Vice Dean of the Advanced Institute of Ocean Research,and the Director of the Office of Pairing Assistance and Rural Revitalization.
He earned his bachelor's degree in economics from the Central University of Finance and Economics and master's degree in business administration from Hong Kong Baptist University.