Ding Mingde was born in Wujiang, Jiangsu Province in September 1966. He received his bachelor’s degree in science in 1986 and his doctorate in 1992 from the Department of Astronomy at Nanjing University. He then joined the faculty. He was promoted to be an associate professor in 1994 and a professor and doctoral supervisor in 1999. He was funded by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2000 and appointed as a Chang Jiang Distinguished Professor in 2009. From 1995 to 1996, he worked as a visiting scholar at the Kiepenheuer Institute of Solar Physics, Germany, and was invited for make short-term academic visits to institutions such as the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the Meudon Observatory of France, the Big Bear Solar Observatory of the United States, the University of Seoul in South Korea, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the United States. From 2008 to 2013, he served as dean of the School of Astronomy and Space Science at Nanjing University. From 2013 to 2016, he was an editorial board member of Solar Physics. Since 2014, he has been an editorial board member of Research in Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Theoretical Astrophysics; Physics of Solar Active Regions

He is mainly engaged in the observation of the multiband spectrum of solar activity and the research on physical mechanism of solar activity, radiation dynamics of sun atmosphere, and space weather. He has undertaken over ten research projects,  including those funded by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the Science Fund for Creative Research Groups, the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program), the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, the General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Joint Fund of Astronomy (key project), and the Joint Research Fund for Overseas Chinese scholars and scholars in Hong Kong and Macao. He has published over 160 SCI papers. His research achievements have won him the first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education in 1995 (second on the awardee list), the third prize of the same award in 1997 (third on the awardee list), and the first prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education in 2004 (first on the awardee list). He was awarded the first “Young Teacher’s Award” by the Ministry of Education in 1999. He was supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2000 and received the Jiangsu Youth May 4th Medal in 2003 and the Government Special Allowance from the State Council in 2010.