UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Long-Qing Chen, Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Engineering Science and Mechanics, and Mathematics, received the Materials Research Society’s (MRS) Materials Theory Award at the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting Awards Ceremony held Nov. 30 to Dec. 5 in Boston.
The award recognizes exceptional advances made by materials theory to the fundamental understanding of the structure and behavior of materials and honors both those who have pioneered the development of a new theoretical approach and those who have used existing approaches to provide significant new insight into materials behavior.
Chen delivered his award talk “Understanding and Manipulating Mesoscale Ferroic Domain Patterns” on Dec. 4.
Chen was selected for his "pioneering work in the development of the phase-field method and its applications in the computational modeling of mesoscale structures and their dynamics in inhomogeneous materials.”
With a multidisciplinary background in such fields as the phase transformation in metal and ceramic materials; the thermodynamics, kinetics, micromechanics, electro- and magnetostatics of materials; and applied mathematics, as well as an extended experience in computational modeling, Chen is able to address novel effects appearing in interdisciplinary areas where the most exciting advancements are expected.
His research group collaborates actively with numerous experimental groups, applied mathematicians and other fellow computational materials scientists and physicists as well as with more than a dozen companies and national labs.
Chen is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, American Physical Society and American Society for Metals. He has received numerous awards for his accomplishments, including the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research; Special Research Creativity Award from the National Science Foundation; Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement (Engineering) from Penn State; Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; Materials Science Research Silver Medal from the American Society for Metals; and Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award from the Electronic, Magnetic and Photonic Materials Division of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society.
Chen earned a bachelor’s degree in materials science and engineering from Zhejiang University, China, a master’s degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a doctoral degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MRS is an international organization of almost 16,000 materials researchers from academia, industry and government, and a recognized leader in promoting the advancement of interdisciplinary materials research and technology to improve the quality of life. For more information about the Materials Research Society visit www.mrs.org online.
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