Deliang Chen (; born 21 July 1961) is a Chinese-Swedish climatologist who is

August Röhss August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian calendar, Julian and Gregorian calendars, and the fifth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. Its zodiac sign is Leo (astrology), Leo and was originally named ''Sextilis'' in Latin ...

Chair of the Department of Earth Sciences of

University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 st ...

. He is a fellow of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special ...

, and a foreign academician of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republ ...

and of the

Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters ( da, Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab, DKNVS) is a Norwegian learned society based in Trondheim. It was founded in 1760 and is Norway's oldest scientific and scholarly institution. The s ...

Biography

Chen was born in Hailing District of Taizhou,

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 ...

, on July 21, 1961. He attended the Dongfanghong School. In 1979, after resuming his college entrance examination, he entered

Nanjing University Nanjing University (NJU; ) is a national public research university in Nanjing, Jiangsu. It is a member of C9 League and a Class A Double First Class University designated by the Chinese central government. NJU has two main campuses: the Xianl ...

, majoring in

climatology Climatology (from Greek , ''klima'', "place, zone"; and , '' -logia'') or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. This modern field of stud ...

. After college, he was assigned to the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,

as an assistant research fellow. Chen arrived in

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

in 1988 at the age of 27 to begin his education at

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 stu ...

Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

, where he studied

geoscience Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological complex constitutions and synergistic linkages of Earth's four spheres ...

under

Paul J. Crutzen Paul Jozef Crutzen (; 3 December 1933 – 28 January 2021) was a Dutch meteorologist and atmospheric chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his work on atmospheric chemistry and specifically for his efforts in studying ...

. In 1992 he did post-doctoral research at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

. He has been teaching at the University of Gothenburg since 1993, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1996 and to full Professor in 2000. He chaired the department of physiography from January 2000 to December 2002. He was director of

International Council for Science The International Council for Science (ICSU, after its former name, International Council of Scientific Unions) was an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the advancement of science. Its members ...

(ICSU) between 2009 and 2012. In 2010 Chen was elected a fellow of the

. He became a foreign academician of the

on November 28, 2017. In 2018 he was appointed chairman of the Department of Geography of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. That same year, he was elected a Foreign Academician of the

. He has directed 26 doctoral dissertations, including Gerrit Lohmann, Lars Lindkvist, Katarina Borne, Barbro Johansson, Maj-Lena Linderson, Cecilia Hellström, Christine Achberger, Fredrik Wetterhall, Lijun Fan, Junfeng Miao, Yanling Song, Elisabeth Simelton, Shuiqing Yin, Lin Tang, Cecilia Bennet, Matilda Palm, Eriksson, Ge Gao, Jenny Sundberg, Ida Westerberg, Sihong Wu, Lars Zetterberg, Yaomin Liao, Alexander Walther, Tinghai Ou and Peng Zhang.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chen, Deliang 1961 births Scientists from Taizhou, Jiangsu Living people Nanjing University alumni Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz alumni University of Cologne alumni Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Chinese climatologists Swedish scientists Chinese emigrants to Sweden Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences