Lin Chen is a full-professor in the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and jointly at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China. He was previously a JST-CREST and JSPS Research Fellow in Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan. He obtained his B.E and PhD in Mechanics (Energy and Resources Engineering) from Peking University. His current research topics include energy resources, oceanic methane hydrate utilization, supercritical fluids, microscale compressible fluid flows, and multiscale heat/mass transfer. He has authored over 120 international journal papers and/or conference presentations, and books/chapters. He received the Outstanding Young Scholar of the MOE (China) in 2012 and 2013, the Innovation Award in 2011, 2012, and 2014, the Best Paper of the Chinese Association of Refrigeration in 2015, and the Elsevier Excellent Reviewer of the year in 2013, 2014, and 2015. He was the winner of the Young Scholar Award of the Asian Union of Thermal Science and Engineering (AUTSE) in 2018. He is also a Reviewer, an Editorial/Advisory Member, and the Guest Editor of many renowned international journals. He is currently an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science and an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Supercritical Fluids (Elsevier).