Dr. Zilin Chen currently works as Luojia Chair Professor, vice dean of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and director of Institute for Pharmaceutical Analysis and Drug Screening in Wuhan University. Prof. Chen received his Ph.D. degree in applied chemistry in 2000 from Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU), Japan. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at TMU, a postdoctoral fellow at NTT Microsystem Integration Labs, Japan and a research assistant professor at University of Notre Dame, USA. He joined in Wuhan University as Luojia Chair Professor in 2007. He has over 150 peer-reviewed research papers published in international journals. His research interests include the micro-column chromatography, capillary electrophoresis and mass spectrometry for biological and pharmaceutical analysis. He initiated and organized first international symposium on Advances in Pharmaceutical Analysis (APA) in 2017 at Wuhan. He serves as members of several academic associations and associate editor of Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis.