Chen Jin

Biography

Chen Jin majored in Horticulture in Nanjing Agricultural University. After getting bachelor degree, he came to work in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG). He got Ph.D degree from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003. During the early period of his career, he devoted himself to multiple projects related to rural development and botanical management. From 2000 on, he focuses on studies of frugivore-plant interactions. He also attaches great importance to the research and practice of environmental education, he has for the first time in Yunnan Province trained graduate students in environmental education. In 2010, he was honored as one of the “Top 10 National Outstanding Science & Technology Workers”by China Association for Science & Technology. Chen Jin serves as director of XTBG since 2005. Even though administration of a large botanical garden consumes his much time and energy, he still enjoys working with his students and completing important research programs. His contribution to tropical ecology and regional biodiversity conservation has been recognized by international colleagues. Chen Jin concurrently serves as founding chairman of Chinese Union of Botanic Gardens (CUBG) since 2013. He promotes the idea of exploring effective ways and means for protecting plant species in China, which helps improve capacity of botanical gardens to conserve native plant resources. He also calls on Chinese botanical gardens to try to realize the target of "zero extinction" of endemic species in a region nationwide. Chen Jin also serves as director of Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS-SEABRI) since 2015. The vision of CAS-SEABRI is to cooperate with Southeast Asian countries to conduct surveys on aspects of biodiversity science, traditional medicine and ethnobotany, sustainable resource use, and ecosystem and environmental change.

Research Interest

Plant-animal interaction; environmental education.