Liu Chen (physicist)

Chen graduated from the National Taiwan University in 1966. In 1972, Chen obtained a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1972 to 1974, Chen did his postdoctoral research at the Bell Labs.

Before joining the faculty at UCI, Chen was a professor at the Princeton University. Chen was the Deputy Head of the Theory Division of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. From 1993 till 2012, Chen was a professor of physics at UCI. Since 2012, Chen has been a professor emeritus.

In 2004, Chen was appointed Kuang-piu Chair Professor at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou.[1] From 2006 to 2016, Chen was the Director of the Institute for Fusion Theory and Simulation (IFTS) at Zhejiang University.[2] In 2016, Chen became the Director Emeritus.

• 2012, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics, from the American Physical Society[3]
• 2008, Hannes Alfvén Prize, from the European Physical Society[4]
• 2004, John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research, from the American Physical Society[5]
• 2011, Fellow, American Geophysical Union
• 1981, Fellow, American Physical Society
• 2009, Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Sciences
• 2019, Subrahmanyan Chandresekhar Prize, from the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies

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