Dr. Chen received his M.D. in medicine from the Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, in 2011. He completed his doctoral training in the Department of Orthopaedic at Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital (in 2016, China). From 2013 to 2016, Dr. Chen worked at the Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital as a Spine Surgeon. In 2018, he joined Spine Labs of UNSW for doctoral training. Dr Chen has been awarded many international grants, including The International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS) traveling fellowship award (clinical fellow at Spine Service, UNSW, Australia), AOSpine clinical research award, NASS traveling fellowship award (fellow at Keck Hospital, USC, USA), International ISSLS Young Investigator Travel Grant, etc. Dr Chen’s previous work focused on the biomechanical changes and clinical related research in degenerative spine diseases. Dr. Xiaolong Chen is an early-stage investigator in translational research of degenerative spine diseases. Dr Chen focuses on the efficacy and complications following different surgeries for degenerative spine diseases via big data and database (network meta-analysis, meta-analysis, and systematic review), biomechanical, radiological, and clinical studies.