Abstract Tsu-Wei Chen is a professor at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. He is also a grantee of Emmy Noether Programme of German Research Foundation (DFG). He earned his BSc at National Taiwan University in Horticultural Science. He has worked on functional-structural plant models (FSPMs) since 2009, beginning with his MSc and PhD degrees from Leibniz Universität Hannover. His research focuses on up-scaling the environmental effects on leaf photosynthesis to canopy level using FSPMs and systems analyses.