你好!
I am a community ecologist who is also passionate about nature conservation, sustainability, and environmental justice. I am interested in studying population dynamics, species interactions and the impact of environmental changes and anthropogenic activities on ecological processes and functioning.
I am newly appointed as Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Nanjing University from 2025, where I’m starting to build my research group. Previously, I spent several wonderful years at Oxford, first as a PhD student and then as a postdoc working with Prof. Owen Lewis.
At the heart of my previous work are manipulative experiments, with a particular focus on host-parasitoid systems. I study species interactions and how they shape insects’ responses and adaptation to climate change inside interconnected biological communities. Moving forward, I will continue working with the fantastic Drosophila-parasitoid system while also exploring new systems and topics at the intersection of species interaction, environmental physiology, and evolutionary biology.
A long time ago (okay, undergrad), I explored multiple research topics including neurobiology, population genetics, and biodiversity conservation. My undergraduate thesis used individual-based simulations to infer the dispersal patterns of the white-headed langur—a passion for conservation that still runs through everything I do.
Contact
My email is jlchen (at) nju.edu.cn
Special thanks to Emilien Dupont for help with the website.