Dr. CHEN Hongjun, Professor of cognitive and neurolinguistics and Dean of School of Foreign Languages, Dalian University of Technology. Meanwhile, he is the board member of China Cognitive and Neurolinguitics Association, the standing member of China Rhetoric Association. In 2010, he went to the CARLA at University of Minnesota as visiting scholar and in 2013 he was invited as guest lecturer at University of Potsdam, Germany delivering the course of Neural Mechanism of Bilingualism. His research fields include cognitive linguistics, neurolinguistics, SLA and cross-cultural communication. Research interests include the neural mechanism of metaphor comprehension both in L1 and L2, teaching methodology, the neural mechanism of L2 processing, and bilingualism. He has published more than 30 research articles including SSCI, CSSCI, EI indexes and published one academic book and compiled more than 10 textbooks. He is the PI of 1 National Social Science Foundation Grant, 1 MOE Humanities and Social Science Grant.