About Tongbin Chen’s work
Tongbin Chen held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Baptist University from February to August 1995. At the time, Chen was based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Tongbin Chen received his Doctorate from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 1990 and completed postdoctoral research at the Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1992. He stayed and worked at the Institute since then. Chen is a member of the Academic Committee and Degree Member of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Director of the Environmental Restoration Research Center, and Director of the Resource Engineering and Environmental Restoration Office.
He has served as a member of the Sludge Management Professional Committee of the International Water Association (IWA), Deputy Director of the Soil Environment Professional Committee of the Chinese Soil Society. Chen discovered the first arsenic hyperaccumulator plant - centipede grass, developed arsenic-contaminated soil phytoremediation technology, established the first phytoremediation demonstration project in Chenzhou City, Hunan Province. Chen presided over a systematic investigation and study on the impact of metal mining in southern China on land environmental quality and food chain.