Chen, currently the August Rohss Chair Professor at the University of Gothenburg and Head of the Department of Geosciences at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, is an internationally renowned climatologist who has made important achievements in the areas of the relationship between regional climate and atmospheric circulation, climate dynamics and climate change. Chen is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Gothenburg, the Academy of Sciences for Developing Countries, and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters. For many years he has been active in the international scientific community, particularly in Sweden and China. From 2009 to 2012, he served as Executive President of the International Council for Science (ICSU), making important contributions to global scientific research leadership, coordination and collaboration. Chen previously served as scientific director of the National Climate Center at the China Meteorological Administration and the Center for Atmospheric Sciences in Gothenburg, Sweden. He has served as a scientific advisor and reviewer to a number of governments, intergovernmental and international non-governmental organizations and national research funding agencies, served on scientific steering committees and councils of internationally renowned research centers and programs, She has served as a judge of international awards such as the Volvo Environment Prize and Olav Thon Award, a member of the Project Evaluation Committee of the Institute of Humanities and Nature Research in Japan, a member of the expert group of the National Major Scientific Research Program on Global Change Research of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and Stockholm Resilience in Sweden Member of the Board of the Centre, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Swedish Environment and Climate Data Centre, Chair of the Nomination Committee for the Stockholm Water Prize and Chair of the Division of Geosciences of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He also served as the lead author, coordinating lead author, and editor of several international scientific journals of the Working Group I of the Fifth and Sixth Assessment Reports of the IPCC, and won the 2016 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the 2017 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the People's Republic of China.