Chen Peng holds a PhD and is a Research Professor and Master’s supervisor. He completed his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral studies at Wuhan University. His research focuses on oceanic laser remote sensing and passive–active remote sensing.
He currently serves as a member of the IOCCG Working Group on Primary Productivity (PP), a core member of the ISSI team on oceanic laser satellite missions, a member of the Digital Ocean Committee of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), and an Executive Council Member of the Coastal Remote Sensing Division of the China Association for Remote Sensing Applications. He is Academic Editor of PLOS ONE, Guest Editor of Remote Sensing and Frontiers in Remote Sensing, a member of the Advisory Board of Remote Sensing, and Co-Chair of the Laser Remote Sensing Session at the 2023 International Ocean Colour Science Meeting (IOCS).
He has led three projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, one sub-project of the National Key R&D Program, and nearly twenty other national and provincial-level projects. As first or corresponding author, he has published nearly 30 SCI papers in international journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, and Optics Express, and has authored one monograph. He received the Special Prize of the Marine Science and Technology Award (ranked 7th).