1985年生，中共党员。2007年毕业于南京大学，获地球化学学士学位。2013年毕业于中国科学院广州地球化学研究所，获地球化学博士学位。2013年6月至2020年12月任中国科学院广州地球化学研究所助理研究员。2021年1月晋升为副研究员。主要从事深层领域相关的油气地球化学研究。共发表SCI/EI论文20余篇；其中，以第一作者和通讯作者身份在Chemical Geology、Marine and Petroleum Geology、Organic Geochemistry等SCI杂志发表论文9篇。参与中文专著撰写1部。获授权发明专利1件。主持国家自然科学基金青年项目（已结题）、面上项目（在研）和国家油气重大专项课题子课题（已结题）各一项；参与中科院先导A/B专项、油田公司外协项目等10余项。

油气地球化学，包括但不限于：1）热化学硫酸盐还原反应（TSR）的反应机理及资源效应；2）次生型轻质油的地化特征及生成演化机制；3）油田水化学组成及其与油气成藏改造的关联；4）烃源岩内小分子有机酸的生成演化序列；5）大分子有机质中键合烃在油源示踪方面的适用性研究。

学术论文（#为学科组在读学生，*为通讯作者）

12. Sun Zhenyu^#, Chen Jian*, Jia Wanglu, Wang Qiang, Xu Jie, Li Xin, Yang Jianghu, Peng Pingan. 2025. Geochemical characteristics of light hydrocarbons generated in thermochemical sulfate reduction: Results from three series of simulation experiments. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 177: 107388.

11. Sun Zhenyu^#, Chen Jian*, Wang Qiang, Jia Wanglu, Peng Pingan. 2024. A quantitative analysis on thermochemical sulfate reduction products of two model compounds: Implications for reaction mechanism and alteration process of hydrocarbons. Chemical Geology, 122187.

10. Wang Susu, Chen Jian, Jia Wanglu*, Peng Pingan. 2024. Multiple isotopes (C-S-N-H) and bound biomarkers in asphaltenes: New constraints on the classification and genesis of reservoir bitumens from the northwestern Sichuan Basin, South China. Organic Geochemistry, 104807.

9. Chen Jian*, Xu Jie, Wang Susu, Sun Zhenyu, Li Zhong, Jia Wanglu, Peng Ping’an. 2021. Dissolution of different reservoir rocks by organic acids in laboratory simulations: implications for the effect of alteration on deep reservoirs. Geofluids, ID 6689490.

8. Chen Jian*, Xu Jie, Wang Qiang, Wang Susu, Sun Zhenyu, Peng Ping’an. 2020. The main generation stage of organic acids during source-rock maturation: Implications for reservoir alteration in deep strata. IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci., 600: 012002.

7. Sun Zhenyu^#, Xu Jie, Chen Jian*, Wang Susu, Jia Wanglu, Peng Ping’an. 2020. The role of exogenous oxygen in organic acid generation in deep reservoirs of petroleum-producing basins: Progress and prospects. IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci., 600: 012027.

6. Chen Jian, Jia Wanglu^*, Yu Chiling, Zhang Xiangyun, Peng Ping’an. 2020. Bound hydrocarbons and structure of pyrobitumen rapidly formed by asphaltene cracking: Implications for oil–source correlation. Organic Geochemistry, 146: 104053.

5. Chen Jian, Jia Wanglu^*, Xiao Zhongyao, Peng Ping’an. Catalytic hydroprolysis of asphaltenes in marine oil from the Tarim Basin, NW China: Implications to complicated oil charging histories in an old composite basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2020, 114: 104232.

4. Chen Jian^*, Liu Dayong, Hou Xiaolin, Fan Yukun, Jia Wanglu, Peng, Ping’an, Zhang Baoshou, Xiao Zhongyao. Origin and evolution of oilfield waters in the Tazhong oilfield, Tarim Basin, China, and their relationship to multiple hydrocarbon charging events. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2018, 98: 554-568

3. Chen Jian, Peng Ping’an^*. A comparative study of free and bound bitumens from different mature source rocks with Type III kerogens. Organic Geochemistry, 2017, 112: 1-15.

2. Chen Jian, Liu Dayong, Peng Ping’an^*, Chen Ning, Hou Xiaolin, Zhang Baoshou, Xiao Zhongyao. Iodine-129 chronological study of brines from an Ordovician paleokarst reservoir in the Lunnan oilfield, Tarim Basin. Applied Geochemistry, 2016, 65: 14-21.

1. Chen Jian, Liu Dayong, Peng Pingan^*, Yu Chiling, Zhang Baoshou, Xiao Zhongyao. The sources and formation processes of brines from the Lunnan Ordovician paleokarst reservoir, Tarim Basin, northwest China. Geolfuids, 2013, 13: 381-394.

专著章节

4. 彭平安, 贾望鲁, 陈键, 2023. 第6章 前寒武纪烃源层特征与发育背景浅析.书名：中国中-新元古界地质学与油气资源(王铁冠等 著), 科学出版社, pp152-165.

3. Peng Pingan; Jia Wanglu; Chen Jian; Chapter 6 Characterization and developmental background of global Precambrian hydrocarbon source beds, In: Wang Tieguan (Ed.), Meso-Neoproterozoic Geology and Petroleum Resources in China, Springer, Singapore, 2022, pp 229-249.

2. 陈键, 孙震宇, 徐杰, 2022. 第3章 深层-超深层有机酸形成分布及成储效应实验模拟. 书名: 盆地深层-超深层沉积成岩作用与油气储层形成分布 (李忠等 著), 科学出版社, pp67-129.

1. 彭平安, 陈键, 邹艳荣等, 2018. 第九章 有机地球化学. 书名: 中国地球化学学科发展史(上册) (欧阳自远 主编), 科学出版社, pp393-424.