Dr. Long-Qing Chen is Donald W. Hamer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, and Professor of Mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for npj Computational Materials by Nature Portfolio and director of DOE Computational Mesoscale Materials Science Center. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S. from Stony Brook University, and B.S. from Zhejiang University. He joined the faculty at Penn State in 1992 and has been teaching thermodynamics of materials for the past 30 years. He has published over 800 papers on the thermodynamics and kinetics of solid-state phase transformations as well as computational microstructure model development and applications for structural metallic alloys, functional oxide thin films, energy materials, and quantum materials. He is a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher since 2018. His research awards include Material Research Society (MRS) Materials Theory Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Humboldt Research Award, TMS-FMD John Bardeen Award, TMS EMPMD Distinguished Scientist Award, American Ceramic Society (ACerS) Ross Coffin Purdy Award, Charles Hatchett Award, and ASM International Silver Medal. He is a Fellow of TMS, MRS, American Physical Society (APS), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), ACerS, and ASM.

Positions

Hamer Professor (Materials Science and Engineering)
The Pennsylvania State University
2015
Professor (Mathematics)
The Pennsylvania State University
2014
Professor (Engineering Science and Mechanics)
The Pennsylvania State University
2014
Distinguished Professor (Materials Science and Engineering)
The Pennsylvania State University
2012 - 2015
Professor (Materials Science and Engineering)
The Pennsylvania State University
2002 - 2012
Associate Head of Graduate Studies (Materials Science and Engineering)
The Pennsylvania State University
2000 - 2002
Associate Professor (Materials Science and Engineering)
The Pennsylvania State University
1998 - 2002
Assistant Professor (Materials Science and Engineering)
The Pennsylvania State University
1992 - 1998
Assistant Lecturer (Materials Science and Engineering)
Zhejiang University
1982 - 1983

Education

Postdoc with Armen G. Khachaturyan (Materials Science and Engineering)
Rutgers University Rutgers Business School
1992
Ph.D. (Materials Science and Engineering)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1990
M.S. (Materials Science and Engineering)
Stony Brook University
1985
B.S. (Materials Science and Engineering)
Zhejiang University
1982