About Xiaoyong Chen’s work
From April to November 2002, Xiaoyong Chen held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Institute of Education. At the time, Chen was based at East China Normal University.
Biography
Chen Xiaoyong received his Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees from East China Normal University, and conducted postdoctoral research in Biology at Xiamen University. Since 1997, he has been teaching in the Department of Environmental Science of East China Normal University and was promoted to Professor in 2001. Chen's academic part-time positions include Director of the Ecological Society of China, Vice Chairman of the Population Ecology Professional Committee of the Ecological Society of China, member of the Fourth Discipline Evaluation Group of the Shanghai Academic Degrees Committee, and member of the Plant Ecology Professional Committee of the Botanical Society of China. He is mainly engaged in the research of animal and plant relations, conservation biology, habitat fragmentation ecology and evolutionary consequences, and comprehensively applies classical ecological methods and molecular genetic markers to answer ecological questions.