Jingwen Chen has been a full professor of environmental chemistry at the Dalian University of Technology since 2001. He graduated from the Northeast Normal University and received his B.S. in 1991 and M.S. in 1994. After obtaining a Ph.D. from Nanjing University in 1997, he undertook postdoctoral studies at the German Research Center for Environmental Health as an Alexander von Humboldtian. He served as an Associate Editor for ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, and a member of editorial boards of several international (Ecotox. Environ. Safe., J. Environ. Sci.) and domestic (Environ. Sci., Environ. Chem., Asian J. Ecotox., Mar. Environ. Sci.) journals, and as a member of Teaching Steering Committee on Environmental Science and Engineering of China Ministry of Education (MOE). He received the Teaching and Research Award for Outstanding Young Teachers in Higher Education Institutions of MOE (2000), a winner (Second Class, the second contributor) of the National Natural Science Award (2011), and a winner (First Class, the first contributor) of the Natural Science Award (2023) of MOE. In 2013, he won the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and was appointed as a chair professor by MOE. He has 370 publications with 13,302 citations and an h-index of 56 (Scoups, 2 November 2023).