Prof. Min Chen is Dean of the School of Geography and the Director of Key Lab of Virtual Geographic Environment (Ministry of Education of PRC), Director of the subcenter of International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, Nanjing Normal University, China. His research interests are geographic modeling and simulation, virtual geographic environment (VGEs), and sustainable development. He is the group leader of the Open Geographic Modeling and Simulation System (OpenGMS, https://geomodeling.njnu.edu.cn/) team. He is also a core team member and leading author for five Reports on Big Earth Data in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals (2021-2025) to the United Nations, and an invited reviewer for the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and International Science Council (ISC).

He is elected as a Foreign Academician of Academia Europaea in 2025 (https://www2.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Chen_Min). He is a Fellow of Association of American Geographers (AAG), a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), a Fellow of Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, a Fellow of iEMSs and a Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). He is also PI of NSF for Distinguished Young Scholars of China, PI of NSF for Excellent Young Scholars of China.

During recent years, Prof. Chen has published 200+ journal papers (among these over 30 papers with their IF>10), such as Science, Nature Climate Change, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Nature Communications, PNAS, Earth-Science Reviews, Annals of AAG, EMS, and IJGIS. He has won more than 20 domestic and international prizes, such as the Smart City Technology Innovation Award, the ISDE Outstanding Young Scientist Award, the Biennial Medal of iEMSs, and the "Waldo Tobler Young Researcher Award" in GIScience.