About Changping Chen’s work
Based at Xiamen University, Changping Chen held a Croucher Visitorship at the Open University of Hong Kong from September 2010 to March 2011.
Biography
CHEN Changping received his Bachelor's and Doctorate degrees in biology from Xiamen University in 1999 and 2004 respectively. He was a visiting scholar at the Open University of Hong Kong and the Plymouth Oceanographic Institution, UK. Since 2004, he has been teaching at the School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, and his research interests include the adaptation and response of marine diatoms to the environment, especially in the context of global change, including eutrophication, ocean acidification and global warming, physiological and ecological studies of marine diatom adaptation and recovery to stress, marine diatom ecological diversity, taxonomy and phylogeny, marine phytoplankton distribution and biodiversity, and marine phytoplankton seed bank.