1988年毕业于美国依阿华大学化学系，获博士学位。现为厦门大学海洋与环境学院院长，兼任中国海洋环境学会副理事长、中国化学会环境化学专业委员会委员、福建省环境科学学会副理事长等。
长期从事环境化学、分析化学、分离科学的教学和科研工作。主要科研领域为环境有机污染物的来源、迁移转化及归宿研究、环境污染物的分析新方法、环境样品预处理新技术的建立与发展。已发表学术论文百多篇。2000年以来发表的有40多篇，其中为SCI收录的近20篇。获省部级奖项3项。
Dr. Yuan Dongxing graduated from University of Iowa of USA and received Ph.D. degree in 1988. Her research interests include environmental chemistry, analytical chemistry and separation science, focusing on the investigation of source, transformation and fate of organic pollutants, as well as the establishment of new analytical methods and sample pretreatment technique. Since 2000, more than 40 papers have been published.