Faculty
Linmin Chen

Gender: male; Nationality: Han

Born: 1956; Yushan County, Jiangxi Province

S.D.; professor, doctoral advisor

Member of the CPC

Chen graduated from the No. 2 Physics Department of Fudan in 1982. Then he worked as an assistant professor from 1982 to 1987, and as a lecturer from 1987 to 1989. In 1989, the government sent him to the University of Tokyo, Japan for further studies, where he got his S.D. degree in March 1995. He returned to Fudan University in the same year to be Dean of the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering. Later he was invited to Hiroshima University as a visiting professor. From October 2000 to July 2003, he was Director of the Higher Education Division of the Shanghai Education Committee and of the Shanghai Academic Degree Office. From July to November 2003, he was Deputy Secretary-general of the Shanghai Education Committee. Since November 2003, he has been Deputy Party Secretary of Fudan.

He also serves as a Deputy Director of the Commission of Pedagogical Direction for College Environmental Science in the Ministry of Education, Executive Council Member of the Shanghai Environmental Science Association, and a member of the Academic Research Committee of Fudan. He was a jury member of the National Awards for Inventions and of the National Awards for Scientific & Technological Advancement, and a member of the Shanghai Academic Degree Committee.

His academic field mainly covers environmental chemistry and atmospheric environment. He has accomplished more than twenty regional, national and international research projects, published more than fifty influential academic theses in the world's learned journals, and finished six monographs (including a college textbook) on environmental sciences and sustainable development. He has won such titles and awards as "Outstanding Worker for Improving Collegiate Students' Political Outlook of Shanghai" in 1982, "Model Returnee of Shanghai" in 1997, and "Outstanding Education Worker of Shanghai" in 1998. He was officially awarded by the Municipal Government of Shanghai in 2001 and 2002.
 

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