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.