Research Interests

• Virtual Geographic Environment
• Geographic Modeling and Simulation
•  Sustainable Development

Education and experience

• 2025- , Dean, School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University
• 2025- , Director, Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education of PRC, Nanjing Normal University
• 2024- , Chair, Academic Committee, School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University
• 2019- , Deputy Director, Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education of PRC, Nanjing Normal University 
• 2015-2018, Full Professor (Distinguished Professor of Jiangsu province), Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education of PRC, Nanjing Normal University
• 2012-2015, Research Associate, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2009-2012, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Co-Supervisor: Prof. Hui Lin)
• 2009, Ph.D. in Cartography and GIS, Nanjing Normal University, China
• 2004, B.E. in Computational Mathematics, Nanjing Normal University, China

Academic Title

• Foreign Academician of Academia Europaea, 2025
• Deputy secretary general of Geographical Society of China, 2025-
• President of the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences, 2024
• Fellow of Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2024
• Fellow of Association of American Geographers, 2024
• Chair of Young Scientist Innovation Network of International Society for Digital Earth, 2023-  
• Member of the Executive Committee of Open Modeling Foundation (OMF), 2021-
• Member of the Managing Committee of The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc, 2021-
• Vice-President of International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, 2020-
• Chair of Modeling Geographic System Committee of International Geographical Union (IGU), 2020-
• Fellow of International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, 2019
• Fellow of Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), 2019
• Co-Chair of Education and Capacity Building for Digital Earth committee of the ISDE, 2019-2023
• Chair of Exploring Interoperability of Open Modeling Platforms Initiative in CSDMS, 2019-
• Chair of Young Scientist Working Group in Asian Geographic Associate (AGA), 2019-
• Executive editor of Annals of GIS (an official journal of CPGIS) (ESCI), 2019-
• Co-Editor in Chief of Environmental Modelling & Software (an official journal of iEMSs), 2024-
• Chair of Virtual Geographic Environment Committee, Chinese National Committee of International Society for Digital Earth, 2024- 
• Secretary general, National University’s Talent Base Introduction Program (Nanjing Normal University), 2018-
• Secretary of AAG GIScience and Systems Specialty Group, 2016-2018
• Distinguished Professor of Jiangsu Province, China (2015-2017)
• Group Leader of Innovative and Entrepreneurial Talent Group of Jiangsu Province, China (2019-2021)
• Innovative and Entrepreneurial Talent of Jiangsu Province, China (2017-2019)

Honors and Awards

• Smart City Technology Innovation Award, 2025
• Biennial Medal of Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2025
• ISDE (International Society for Digital Earth) Outstanding Young Scientist Award, 2025
• Biennial Medal of International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, 2024
• Top Ten Research Advances in Chinese Geographical Science, Geographical Society of China, 2024
• Top Ten Research Advances, Chinese Society of Land Economics, 2024
• Third Prize of Natural Science Award of Jiangsu Province, 2024
• Top Ten Research Advances, Chinese Society of Land Economics, 2023
• Annual Outstanding Contribution Expert, Chinese Society of Land Economics, 2023
• Natural Resources Science and Technology Award in China (Youth Science and Technology Award), 2023
• Second Prize of National Teaching Achievement Award, Ministry of Education of PRC, 2023
• Outstanding Teaching Achievement Award in the 10th university GIS forum in China, 2022
• Top Ten Research Advances in Chinese Geographical Science, Geographical Society of China, 2021 (Top one)
• Top Prize of Progress Award in Geographic Information Technology, China Association for Geospatial Information Society, 2021 (Top one over 280 projects)
•  2021 Global Frontier Science and Technology Young Scientist, WGDC, 2021
• Youth Science and Technology Award of Jiangsu Province, China, 2020
• Second Prize of Natural Science Award of Jiangxi Province, 2020
• Youth Science and Technology award by the Geographical Society of China, 2019
• Waldo Tobler Young Researcher Award in GIScience awarded by Austrian Academy of Sciences (GIS Committee), 2018
• First Prize in Natural Science awarded by the Ministry of Education of PRC, 2018
• The 6th University Innovative Personality in GIS of China, 2016
• Second Prize in Natural Science awarded by the Ministry of Education of PRC, 2014

Recently Selected Journal Articles

• Zhixin Zhang, Zhen Qian, Min Chen*, Rui Zhu, Fan Zhang, Teng Zhong, Jian Lin, Liang Ning, Wei Xie, Felix Creutzig, Wenjun Tang, Laibao Liu, Jiachuan Yang, Ye Pu, Wenjia Cai, Yingxia Pu, Deer Liu, Hui Yang, Hongjun Su, Mingyue Lu, Fei Li, Xufeng Cui, Zhiwei Xie, Tianyu Sheng, Kai Zhang, Paolo Santi, Lixin Tian, Guonian Lü, Jinyue Yan. Worldwide rooftop photovoltaic electricity generation may mitigate global warming. Nature Climate Change. 2025, 15, 393-402.
• Min Chen#*, Zhen Qian#, Niklas Boers, Felix Creutzig, Gustau Camps-Valls, Klaus Hubacek, Christophe Claramunt, John P. Wilson, Stefano Nativi, Anthony J. Jakeman, R. Dietmar Müller, Michael Batty, Chenghu Zhou, Fahu Chen, Qiao Wang, Fan Zhang, C. Michael Barton, Josef Strobl, Michael Meadows, Carlo Ratti, Philipp Hess, Qingsong Xu, Zhixin Zhang, Qiushi Gu, A-Xing Zhu, Hui Lin, Linwang Yuan, Guonian Lü*.2024. Collaboration between artificial intelligence and Earth science communities for mutual benefit. Nature Geoscience, 17: 949–952.
• Min Chen*, Zhen Qian, Niklas Boers, Anthony J. Jakeman, Albert J. Kettner, Martin Brandt, Mei-Po Kwan, Michael Batty, Wenwen Li, Rui Zhu, Wei Luo, Daniel P. Ames, C. Michael Barton, Susan M. Cuddy, Sujan Koirala, Fan Zhang, Carlo Ratti, Jian Liu, Teng Zhong, Junzhi Liu, Yongning Wen, Songshan Yue, Zhiyi Zhu, Zhixin Zhang, Zhuo Sun, Jian Lin, Zaiyang Ma, Yuanqing He, Kai Xu, Chunxiao Zhang, Hui Lin, and Guonian Lü. 2023. Iterative integration of deep learning in hybrid Earth surface system modelling. Nature reviews earth & environment, 4:568-581.
• Zhixin Zhang, Min Chen*, Teng Zhong, Rui Zhu, Zhen Qian, Fan Zhang, Yue Yang, Kai Zhang, Paolo Santi, Kaicun Wang, Yingxia Pu, Lixin Tian, Guonian Lü, Jinyue Yan. Carbon mitigation potential afforded by rooftop photovoltaic in China. Nature Communications. 2023, 14, 2347.
• Min Cao, Ya Tian, Kai Wu, Min Chen*, Yu Chen, Xue Hu, Zhongchang Sun, Lijun Zuo, Jian Lin, Lei Luo, Rui Zhu, Zhenci Xu, Temenoujka Bandrova, Milan Konecny, Wenping Yuan, Huadong Guo, Hui Lin, Guonian Lü. 2023. Future land-use change and its impact on terrestrial ecosystem carbon pool evolution along the Silk Road under SDG scenarios. Science Bulletin, 68(7): 740-749.
• Min Chen, Christophe Claramunt, Arzu Çöltekin, Xintao Liu*, Peng Peng, Anthony C. Robinson, Dajiang Wang, Josef Strobl, John P. Wilson, Michael Batty, Mei-Po Kwan, Maryam Lotfian, François Golay, Stéphane Joost, Jens Ingensand, Ahmad M. Senousi, Tao Cheng, Temenoujka Bandrova, Milan Konecny, Paul M. Torrens, Alexander Klippel, Songnian Li, Fengyuan Zhang, Li He, Jinfeng Wang, Carlo Ratti, Olaf Kolditz, Hui Lin, Guonian Lü*. Artificial intelligence and visual analytics in geographical space and cyberspace: Research opportunities and challenges. Earth-Science Reviews. 2023. 104438.
• Xintao Liu, Min Chen*, Christophe Claramunt, Michael Batty, Mei-Po Kwan, Ahmad M. Senousi, Tao Cheng, Josef Strobl, Cöltekin Arzu, John Wilson, Temenoujka Bandrova, Milan Konecny, Paul Torrens, Fengyuan Zhang, Li He, Jinfeng Wang, Carlo Ratti, Olaf Kolditz, Alexander Klippel, Songnian Li, Hui Lin, Guonian Lü*. 2022. Geographic information science in the era of geospatial big data: A cyberspace perspective. The Innovation, 3(5): 100279.
• Rui Zhu, Luc Anselin, Michael Batty, Mei-Po Kwan, Min Chen*, Wei Luo, Tao Cheng, Che Kang Lim, Paolo Santi, Cheng Cheng, Qiushi Gu, Man Sing Wong, Kai Zhang, Guonian Lü, Carlo Ratti. 2022. The effects of different travel modes and travel destinations on COVID-19 transmission in global cities. Science Bulletin, 67(7):588-592.
• Min Chen, Guonian Lv*, Chenghu Zhou, Hui Lin, Zaiyang Ma, Songshan Yue, Yongning Wen, Fengyuan Zhang, Jin Wang, Zhiyi Zhu, Kai Xu, Yuanqing He. 2021. Geographic modeling and simulation systems for geographic research in the new era: Some thoughts on their development and construction. Science China Earth Sciences, 64: 1207–1223.
• Min Chen, Alexey Voinov, Daniel P. Ames, Albert J. Kettner, Jonathan L. Goodall, Anthony J. Jakeman, Michael C. Barton, Quillon Harpham, Susan M. Cuddy, Cecelia DeLuca, Songshan Yue, Jin Wang, Fengyuan Zhang, Yongning Wen, Guonian Lü*. 2020. Position paper: Open web-distributed integrated geographic modelling and simulation to enable broader participation and applications. Earth-Science Reviews, 207:103223.

Project Website

• https://geomodeling.njnu.edu.cn/

Team Website

• http://opengmsteam.com/

Postdoctoral positions are available in our research group, focusing on geographic modeling and simulation, as well as model sharing and integration. Please contact chenmin0902@163.com for details. Applications are welcome! (Salary: 300,000RMB+ per year, without additional achievement awards)