Qing-An Chen   was born in 1984 in Fujian Province, China, received a B.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2007 and earned his Ph.D. from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics  in 2012. He worked with Prof.Vy M. Dong at the University of California Irvine as a postdoctoral fellow from 2012 to 2015. Then he joined Prof. Martin Oestreich's group at Technische   Universitat Berlin as an Alexander  von Humboldt Fellow. In 2017 he began his independent research career at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where currently he is Professor of Chemistry. His research interests include the development of catalytic asymmetric reactions, mechanistic elucidation, and asymmetric synthesis. He has authored over 70 publications, H-index 22.