柴人杰，东南大学首席教授、二级教授，东南大学生命健康高等研究院执行院长；教育部长江学者特聘教授，国家重点研发计划首席科学家，青年千人，国家优青。现任中国生物物理学会听觉分会会长；中国生理学会干细胞生理专委会候任主委；中国细胞生物学学会发育生物学分会副会长；中国生物医学工程学会干细胞工程技术分会副会长；中国生物工程学会干细胞与组织工程专委会副主委；中国优生科学协会听觉前庭医学分会副会长；中国听基会基础研究专委会主委, ESCI期刊Flavour and Fragrance Journal主编，American Journal of Stem Cells执行主编，Neuroscience Bulletin、实用医院临床杂志副主编。长期致力于神经元和内耳毛细胞的再生和保护研究，近5年在Cell，Lancet等高水平期刊发表通讯作者SCI论文156篇（总影响因子1801.38，平均影响因子11.18，其中IF>150分1篇，IF>30分7篇，IF 10-30分53篇），其中4篇论文被Faculty1000列为推荐文章，1篇论文入选Cell正刊年度最佳论文，14篇论文入选了ESI高被引论文，2篇论文入选热点论文，总他引7000余次，h-index 51；先后获第三届全国创新争先奖状，教育部霍英东高等院校青年科学奖一等奖，中国青年科技奖，教育部自然科学奖一等奖，中华医学科技奖二等奖，中国干细胞创新研究科学家奖，华夏青年医学科技奖，江苏省医学科技奖一等奖，江苏省青年五四奖章团队奖，上海市技术发明奖一等奖，湖北省科学技术奖二等奖，树兰医学青年奖，中国科协十大强国青年科学家，妇幼健康科学技术奖自然科学二等奖，江苏省青年科技奖和江苏省青年十大科技之星等奖励。

Dr. Renjie Chai, Ph.D., Chief Professor of Southeast University, Executive Dean of Advanced Institute for Life and Health, Vice Dean of School of Life Science and Technology in Southeast University, double-hired professor of Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in Zhongda Hospital. He has been selected as Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholars program of the Ministry of Education, Chief Scientist of National Key Research and Development Program, Thousand Young Talents, National Natural Science Foundation Excellent Young Scholars. His other appointments include Chair of Association of Hearing, Speech and Communication in Biophysical Society of China, Vice-chair and candidate-chair of Stem Cell Physiology Committee of Chinese Physiological Society. Chairman of the Basic Research Committee of the China Audiology Medical Foundation, Executive Editor-In-Chief of ESCI journal American Journal of Stem Cells. His long-term research interests focus on the regeneration and protection of neurons and hair cells. He has published 119 SCI papers as (co-)corresponding authors (Total impact factors 1120.38; Average impact factor 9.33; Impact factor>30, 4 articles; IF10-30, 31 article); among which 4 articles were recommended by Faculty1000 prime, 1 article was selected as Cell Best of 2020, 13 articles were selected as ESI high citation paper, 2 articles were selected as ESI hot paper. The overall citation is over 6000 times, and the h-Index is 48. He won provincial and ministerial scientific awards for many times, including the first prize of Ministry of Education Natural Science Award, the first prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Advance Award, the first prize of Jiangsu Province Medical Science and Technology Award, the Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Award for Young Scholar, the SuLan Medical Award for Young Scholar and so on.