Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2003, Professor Jun Chen is a distinguished Chinese geomatics scientist and an internationally recognised scholar of spatio-temporal information science, aerospace mapping, and geographic information systems. Born in October 1956, he received his graduate degree from Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping, now Wuhan University, in 1983 and began his academic career at the same institution. From 1990 to 1995, he served as Executive Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing. He subsequently held the positions of Deputy Director, Director, and Chief Engineer of the National Geomatics Center of China from 1995 to 2009. From 1997 to 2011, he served as President of the China Association of Geographic Information Systems. In 2012, he was elected President of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), becoming the first Chinese scientist to hold the position. He was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2019 and named a Fellow of the International Science Council in 2023. He currently serves as Chief Scientist of the Moganshan Geospatial Information Laboratory, a joint initiative of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Zhejiang Province, and as Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at China University of Mining and Technology. His contributions have been recognised through the First National Award for Innovation and Excellence, the World Geospatial Information Technology Innovation Award, and the Asian Geospatial Information Lifetime Achievement Award.