Biographical details

Dr. Chong Wei Jin received a B.S. (Applied Chemistry) and a Ph.D. (Plant Nutrition, under the direction of Prof. Shao Jian Zheng) from the Zhejiang University in 2003 and 2008, respectively. After got his Ph.D, he firstly worked 2 years as lecturer and then as associate professor in College of Environmental and Resource Sciences at Zhejiang University. From Feb. 2012, he did research in Professor Jian Kang Zhu’s lab (Purdue University, USA) as a visiting scholar for one year. In 2013, he won the title of Distinguished Young Scholar from the National Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province. In 2016, he won the title of Outstanding Young Scholar from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. And in the same year, he was promoted to a professor, and he established a research lab in plant mineral nutrition. Currently, his lab has 1 postdoctoral fellow, 3 Ph.D students and 4 Master Degree students.