ChatGPT in Scientific Research and Writing: A Beginner’s Guide

Jie Han is professor of environmental sciences at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. She graduated from Xi’an Jiaotong University in China and The University of Auckland in New Zealand. Her research interests focus on environmental pollution and public health, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence-assisted design and synthesis of novel compounds and polymers. She serves as the co-chief editor of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters and an editorial board member of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Animal Diseases.

Wei Qiu is the founder of Guyiheng Technologies, a fast-growing national high-tech enterprise in China developing artificial intelligence and big-data applications for science and engineering. He graduated from Xi’an Jiaotong University with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, and a master’s degree of science in engineering from the University of New Brunswick in Canada. He worked as an Engineering New Zealand-accredited environmental engineer at the New Zealand branch of WSP, the first-ranked international engineering consultancy firm by Engineering News-Record (ENR).

Eric Lichtfouse is professor of scientific writing and environmental chemistry at the International Research Centre for Renewable Energy, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He is co-chief editor and founder of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters, and has published the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals. He has initiated a new discipline, single sample molecular chronology, that uses molecular clocks to study the history of organic compounds in complex media. He has done research in France, Germany, the USA and China. His research focus on complex organic matter.