Dr. Yao CHEN is a professor at Shandong University (SDU). He serves as the executive director of Institute of Space Sciences of SDU since July 2013. He received the Jeoujang Jaw Outstanding Young Science Award in Space Physics in 2017, the Youth Innovation Award in Space Weather Science and Technology in 2016, and the Basu Early Career Award in Sun-Earth systems Science from the AGU-SPA section in 2008, etc. His primary research interest is the physics of solar eruption and mechanisms of particle acceleration and coherent radio emission in space plasmas. His publications can be accessed via the link to his ORCID (0000-0001-6449-8838).