Shanchun Yan, Ph.D. in Agronomy, Professor (Level 2), Doctoral Supervisor, is the leader of the Forest Protection Discipline and an expert in forest entomology. She is deputy director of the Resource Insects Committee of the Chinese Entomological Society. She is a member of the Chemical Ecology Committee of the Chinese Ecological Society. Her research areas are integrated forest pest management and insect chemistry and biology. She completed her undergraduate, master's, and doctoral studies at Northeast Forestry University and was sent to Finland for one year. She graduated with a master's degree in 1989 and has been working at the university ever since.