Dong Chen

Dong is a Distinguished Professor at Soochow University and Founding Head of the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Soochow University. His professional interests include life quality engineering, bioinspired chemical engineering, food engineering, and particle technology. Previously, he held Chair Professorships at Xiamen University, Monash University and The University of Auckland respectively. He was an academic at The University of Auckland and was a Senior Research Engineer at New Zealand Dairy Research Institute. Has received many awards including, but not limited to; The IDS Founder Award for Outstanding Contribution to Drying Research; IAEF Lifetime Achievement Award in Food Engineering and Most Favourite Teacher of Soochow University to mention a few. Dong has published roughly 650 journal articles, 230 conference papers and several books. He has over 23000 citations for his published work and a H-index of 74. Personal interests include painting, singing, reading and mathematics.