Prof. Nengfang Chao received a BS from East China University of Technology in 2010 and a PhD from Wuhan University in 2015. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Gravity Center of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, from 2016 to 2018. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Leeds (2022-2023). Currently, he is an associate professor at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). His research interests include ocean gravity fields, seafloor topography, polar ice caps, sea ice changes, sea level changes, land glacier mass changes, and water resource changes.