Professor Chen is the professor of Shandong University. He is mainly engaged in the study of molecular and circuit mechanisms of learning and memory,exploration of the brain circuit mechanism of stress disorders and depression and other mental diseases as well as studies in possible intervention measures from molecular cells to the overall animal level. He has obtained funding from many national projects, the papers have been published in Science, J Neurosci, Dev Cell, Cereb Cortex, J Cell Sci, J Biol Chem and other journals. The papers have been cited more than 1,500 times.At the same time, he is a reviewer of Journal of Neuroscience, Nature Communications, Cerebral Cortex and other magazines.