Chen Wei (; born May 1966) is a Chinese food scientist currently serving as vice-president of

Jiangnan University Jiangnan University (JiangnanU or JU; ) is a public research university located in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China. It is a National Key University funded by the Double First Class University Plan and former Project 211, and is directly administered by the ...

Biography

Chen was born in May 1966 in Jiangdu County,

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...

. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1988, a master's degree in 1995, and a doctor's degree in 2003, all from

. After graduation, he taught at the university, where he was promoted to associate professor in 2003 and to full professor in 2006. He was a visiting scholar at

Wake Forest University Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the un ...

in 2007 and the

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, ...

in 2014.

Honours and awards

* 2011 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars * 2012 "Chang Jiang Scholar" (or " Yangtze River Scholar") * 2018 National Technology Invention Award (Second Class) * November 22, 2019 Member of the

Chinese Academy of Engineering The Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE, ) is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering. It was established in 1994 and is an institution of the State Council of China. The CAE and the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

(CAE)

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Chen Wei
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