Donghai Lin received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Xiamen University in 1984, 1989, and 2003, respectively. From 1993 to 1995, he held a post-doctoral position with the NMR Center, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan, China. From 1998 to 2001, he was a Research Fellow with the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA. From 2001 to 2003, he was a Research Associate with the Bio-NMR Center, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. From 2003 to 2010, he was a Distinguished Professor with the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, CAS, Shanghai, China. Since 2010, he has been a Distinguished Professor with the High-Field NMR Center, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University. His research interests include NMR methodology, structure biology, and metabonomics. He received the Wang Tianjuan Spectroscopy Prize, China, in 2006.