Prof. Dingjiang Chen is a professor at Zhejiang University. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in soil and agricultural chemistry from Zhejiang University in 2002, and he received a PhD degree in soil science from Zhejiang University in 2007. In 2007, he entered the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University to work as a postdoctoral teacher. He stayed on campus as a teacher in 2010. In 2012, he was promoted to associate professor, and in December 2017, he was promoted to professor. He has been the PI of three research projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, one research project from the National Key Research and Development Program of China, and one research project from the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China since 2010. His interests mainly include the geochemical cycle of the soil nutrient biosphere, the simulation of non-point source pollution processes, and quantitative control theory.