Minhan Dai is now a professor at Xiamen University. He is also the Academician of the Chinese Academy of Science. His research focuses on carbon biogeochemistry in marginal and estuarine systems, geochemistry of radioactive elements in surface and groundwater,  geochemistry of trace metals in coastal and estuarine environments, and geochemical studies of colloidal material in the transport of trace metals, organic carbon, and radionuclides in surface and ground waters.