Chen Xu (geologist)

Chen Xu (born 17 September 1936) is a Chinese geologist who is a researcher at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography Chen was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu, on 17 September 1936, while his ancestral home in Huzhou, Zhejiang. After graduating from Beijing Institute of Geology (now China University of Geosciences) in 1959, he was despatched to the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, where he was promoted to associate research fellow in January 1983 and to research fellow in January 1988.