Lin Du is a professor of environmental sciences at Environment Research Institute in Shandong University (SDU). He studied chemistry at Ocean University of China (OUC) and received his bachelor’s degree in 2003. He got his PhD of physical chemistry at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in 2008, and then he worked as postdoctoral fellow at University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium. In 2010, he moved to University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark, and worked as postdoctoral researcher until 2013. He then took an assistant professor position at University of Copenhagen. In 2014, he came back to China and became a professor at Shandong University. His research interest includes production and environmental impacts of marine aerosol, reaction mechanism of atmospheric volatile organic compounds, and formation mechanism of secondary organic aerosol. He has published more than 170 internationally refereed papers. He was elected as the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2023.