Long-Qing Chen

Department of Materials Science and Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
102 Steidle Building
University Park, PA 16802-5005
Office: (814) 863-8101, Fax: (814) 865-2917, E-mail: lqc3@psu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., M.I.T., Materials Science and Engineering, February 1990
M.S., SUNY at Stony Brook, Materials Science and Engineering, August 1985
B.S., Zhejiang University, Materials Science and Engineering, June 1982

EXPERIENCE

Professor, 07/2002 - present, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University.
Associate Head for Graduate Studies, 01/2000 - 06/2002, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University.
Associate Professor, 07/1998 - 06/2002, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University.
Assistant Professor of Material Science and Engineering, 05/1992 - 06/1998, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University.
Postdoctoral Associate, 01/1990 - 04/1992, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Materials theory and computer modeling

AWARDS

ONR Young Investigator Award, 1995
NSF Special Research Creativity Award, 1999
Wilson Award for Outstanding Research, Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, 2000
Deike Research Award, Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, 2001
Penn State University Faculty Scholar Medal in Engineering, 2003
Outstanding Overseas Young Scientist Award by Chinese Natural Science Foundation, 2004
Cheung Kong Chair Professorship at Beijing University of Science and Technology, awarded by Chinese Ministry of Education, 2005 - 2008
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2005-2006
Royal Society / Kan Tong Po Fellowship, 2005-2006
ASM Materials Research Silver Medal, 2006

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Overseas Editor, Materials Transactions, JIM (Japanese Institute of Metals): 2001 - present
Participated in the study “Technology for Future Naval Forces" conducted by the Materials Technology Panel under the auspices of the Naval Studies Board of the National Research Council, and provided expert assessment on how computational materials design will impact the future of the Navy
Served as a panelist for NSF and DOE for about dozen panels
A member of: the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS); ASM International; and the Materials Research Society (MRS)
Member and programming representative of TMS EMPMD Division Council
Member of an TMS ad hoc Technical Advisory Group on "Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME)", 2005
A member of the Physics and Chemistry of Materials Committee of TMS; the Phase Transformation Committee of ASM; the Computer simulation Committee of ASM
A co-organizer of more than a dozen TMS/ASM, MRS, and ACerS symposiums
Review papers for about 20 Journals and more than half dozen federal and international funding agencies

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

About 200 authored or co-authored publications
About 150 invited talks including a half dozen at Gordon Research Conferences