CURRICULUM VITAE
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Deliang CHEN
July 21, 1961
Swedish
International Council for Science (ICSU)
5 rue Auguste Vacquerie
75116 Paris, France
Tel.: +33 (0) 1 45 25 03 29, Fax: +33 (0) 1 42 88 94 31
E-mail: deliang.chen@icsu.org,
ICSU homepage: http://www.icsu.org/
Personal homepage: http://rcg.gvc.gu.se/dc
Education
1989-1992
1979-1983
Ph.D. candidate at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. Major: Geosciences;
minors: Theoretical Meteorology (Dynamics) and Applied Mathematics
(numerical methods for differential equations). Supervisors of the three subjects
are Prof. P. J. Crutzen and Prof. M. Domrös, Prof. W. Zdunkowski, and Prof. W.
Börsch-Supan respectively. Title of the Ph.D. thesis: 'Development of a
Two-Dimensional Model of Global Climate-Transport'. degree earned on
February 27, 1992.
B.S., majored in Climatology, Department of Meteorology, Nanjing University,
Nanjing, China.
Appointment
2009200920082007
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Executive Director of International Council for Science (ICSU)
Member of the World Science Forum Series Steering Committee
Member of the editorial board of Chinese Geographical Science (English)
August Röhss Chair in Physical Geography directed towards Geoinformatics at
University of Gothenburg.
Director for ‘Gothenburg Atmospheric Science Centre’. The Centre consists of
researchers from two Universities and two national research institutes in Sweden (for
details see http://www.miljo.chalmers.se/gac/).
Oversea Chairman of the Scientific Steering Committee of Laboratory for
Climate Studies at China Meteorological Administration.
Science Director of the Beijing Climate Center (bcc.cma.gov.cn), a
Regional Climate Center (RCC) of World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Advisor of the National Meteorological Center in China.
Visiting Professor at the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology,
University of Cologne, Cologne, F.R. Germany.
Part-time advisor at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute.
Senior Lecturer (Lektor) in Physical Meteorology at Earth Sciences Centre at the
University of Gothenburg, Sweden in July 1993. Promoted to Associate Professor
(Docent) in 1996. Became Full Professor of Physical Meteorology in 2000. Appointed
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to board member of the Department of Earth Sciences in 2000, board member of the
Gothenburg Atmospheric Science Centre (http://www.gmv.chalmers.se/gac/) in 2004,
Member of The Research Coordination Working Group of the Faculty of Science and
the Department in 2006. In 1995 Deliang Chen funded the Regional Climate Group
(RCG: http://rcg.gvc.gu.se) who is specialized in past and future regional climate
changes and their impact in Sweden and China.
Post-doctoral Research Assistant at the Department of Physics II,
Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.
Post-doctoral Research Assistant at the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology,
University of Cologne, Cologne, F.R. Germany.
Ph.D. work under the guidance of Prof. Paul J. Crutzen at Max-Planck-Institute for
Chemistry, Mainz, F.R. Germany.
Personal Assistant to the Director and Research Assistant at Institute of Geography,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Awards and Honors
2010 Elected Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Class for Geosciences
2010 Honorary Professor, the Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth (CEODE),
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2001 Distinguished Young Scientist Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2000 Overseas Assessor, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1999 Honorary Professor by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China.
Other International Commitments
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Lead Author of Chapter 1 'Introduction' in the IPCC (International Panel of Climate
Change) Working Group I (AR5)
Contributing author of Chapters 2 and 3 of ‘The BALTEX Assessment of Climate
Change for the Baltic Sea basin’ (BACC) report.
Contributing author of Chapters 2 and 4 of the ‘Arctic Climate Impact Assessment’
(ACIA) report.
Contributing Author of Chapter 10 ‘Regional Climate Simulation -- Evaluation and
Projections’ in the IPCC Working Group I (AR3)
Acted as reviewer for German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF),
Norwegian Natural Science Research Council, Swedish Natural Science Research
Council (NFR and VR) and Estonian Natural Science Research Council.
National Commitments
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Acting as member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ Committee for
Environment
Acted as member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ Committee for
IGBP/WCRP (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme/ World Climate
Research Programme)
Refereed papers and books (including chapters) since 1995
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