Jingyuan Chen was born in 1957 and raised in Xiamen city, passed the first university entrance exams after the Cultural Revolution in 1977 and graduated from Tianjin University of Science and Technology in 1982. She then worked as an engineer at Xiamen Electrochemistry Company (Xiamen, China) for 1982-1990. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Fukui (Japan) in 1996, supervised by Prof. Koichi Aoki. Then she worked as a senior researcher in MAEDA KOSEN Company Limited from 1996 to 1998, as a lecturer at school of Faculty of Science in Kanazawa University from 1998 to 2000, as a visiting scholar at Henry White's laboratory in the University of Utah from 2000 to 2001. In 2001 she returned to Japan, worked as an assistant professor at Department of Applied Physics in University of Fukui from 2001 to 2017, and worked as a professor at the University of Fukui from 2017 to 2023, worked as an Honorary Professor from 2023 to the present. During her academic career at the University of Fukui, over the past 23 years, she has supervised more than 37 Ph.D. students from Japan, China, Thailand and other countries and areas. Her research topics mainly include: basic electrochemistry, statistical mechanics, mass transport, electric double layer, nano/micro-electrode techniques, physics of interfacial phenomena.