Long-Qing Chen

Department of Materials Science and Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
N-321 Millennium Science Complex
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

• Wilson Research Initiation Award, Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, 1992
• Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 1995
• National Science Foundation 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
• Guest Professor of Beijing Unversity of Science Technology, 2004 - present
• TMS EMPMD Exemplary Service Award, 2005
• 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
• American Physical Society Fellow, 2008
• Zhongshan Lecture, Nanjing University, 2009
• D.B. Robinson Disthinguished Lecture, University of Alberta, 2010
• Students' Choice, Faculty of the Year Award, The Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 2010
• Outsanding Reviewer Award from Acta Materialia, 2010
• TMS/EMPMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award, 2011

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

• 350 total authored or co-authored publications with more than 300 collected in Web of Science
• More than 200 invited presentations
• Chen's publications have been cited for more than 8000 times with an H-index of 47