Professor CHEN, Si-Chong
Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, HKU
BSc (Wuhan University, China); MPhil (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); PhD (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Teaching Areas
- Ecology
- Plant ecology
- Plant diversity
- Seed ecology
- Plant reproduction and regeneration
- Community ecology
- Quantitative ecology
- Biogeography
- Ecological statistics
- R for data science
Research Interests / Current Research
- Macroecology
- Macroevolution
- Biogeography
- Biodiversity
- Seed ecology
- Plant reproduction and regeneration
- Biotic interaction
- Life history
Fellowships
- Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Overseas Program), NSFC
- “100 Telants” Program, CAS
- Future Leaders Fellowship in Plant and Fungal Science, RBG Kew
- Jacob Blaustein Centre for Scientific Cooperation Postdoctoral Fellowship, BGU
- University International Postgraduate Award Scholarship, UNSW
Awards and Honours
- President-Elect, International Society for Seed Science (2025–2029)
- NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Overseas Program; 2022–2024)
- Self-Financed Outstanding Scholarship Awardee, China Scholarship Council (2021)
- Editorial boards for Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Ecography, Oikos, Seed Science Research, Integrative Zoology, etc.
Recent Selected Publications
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