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Dr. Long Chunlin is a Chinese ethnobotanist and Professor II at Minzu University of China with expertise in biodiversity conservation, botany, ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry, plant genetic resources, plant taxonomy, and phylogeny. He was born on March 5, 1964. His work examines the interactions between people, plants, and biocultural diversity. Previously, he was a professor at the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences where he led the Research Group for Ethnobotany and Plant Resource Evaluation.

Dr. Long received his Ph.D. degree in ecology in 2002 from the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences at Gifu University in Japan. He has published over 330 papers and 22 books and has been awarded over 50 grants by national, provincial or international funding agencies. Dr. Long has also been involved in receiving seventeen patents of innovation in China. He has received major prizes including the First Prize of Advanced Achievement of Science and Technology in Yunnan that was awarded by the Yunnan People’s Government in 2013.

He serves as Vice Chair of the Board of the Chinese Society of Ethnobotany and Vice-President of the Sub-Society for Ecological and Natural Conservation of the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences. He has supervised twenty-two students on completion of their PhD degrees and 83 students on completion of their master degrees. He served as the Chief Engineer of the China Germplasm Bank for Wild Species between 2003 to 2009.