Liu Chen (physicist)
Liu Chen, is an American plasma physicist. Chen is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine.Biography
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. From 2006 to 2016, Chen was the Director of the Institute for Fusion Theory and Simulation at Zhejiang University. In 2016, Chen became the Director Emeritus.Honors and awards
- 2012, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics, from the American Physical Society
- 2008, Hannes Alfvén Prize, from the European Physical Society
- 2004, John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research, from the American Physical Society
- 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
