Chen Lin, male, born in November 1945,in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Researcher at the Institute of Biophysics of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of the Beijing Magnetic Resonance Brain Imaging Center (National Large-scale Science Instrument Center), Dean of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Hefei National Integrated Science Center, and director of the Department of Psychology of the University of Science and Technology of China.

He was elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003, and was elected academician of the World Academy of Sciences in 2009. In 2011, he founded the Chinese Society for Congnitive Science, and acted as the chairman of its first council. He was appointed as the board member of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in 2019. He acted as the principal investigator of many major projects and grants, including the 973 Plan Project, innovation groups project, and other major research plans. In 2004, he won the "Outstanding Scientist Award" of the Hong Kong Qiushi Science and Technology Foundation.

He graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1970. From 1980 to 1983, he visited the University of California, San Diego, and the University of California, Irvine as a visiting scholar, and a post-doctor of the Sloan Foundation. In 1985, he was appointed as the professor at the University of Science and Technology of China and the doctorate instructor in 1986. From 1986 to 2012, he served as the director of the Key Laboratory of Cognitive Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the director of the State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science. From 1988 to 1993, he served as a visiting professor at the University of Regensburg and the University of Munich. From 2002 to 2004, he served as a part-time researcher at the National Institute of Spiritual Health, Natinal Institute of Health, USA.

Research Fields：

Brain and cognitive science and brain imaging

In 1982, he published a paper in Science as the sole author, proposing the "large-scale first" topological property perception theory. On the basic question of "what is the basic unit of cognition", he challenged the "local first" theoretical line that has dominated the world for more than half a century. Over the past 40 years, he has comprehensively and systematically developed a topological model of the "large-scale first" cognitive basic unit.