Dr Li-Chyong Chen

Distinguished Research Fellow
Center for Condensed Matter Sciences

National Taiwan University

Dr Li-Chyong Chen is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Center for Condensed Matter Sciences (CCMS), National Taiwan University (NTU). She has served as the Director of CCMS (2012-2018), and has been the Director of Center of Atomic Initiative for New Materials at NTU since 2018. Dr Chen received her BS in Physics from NTU (1981) and PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard University (1989). In 2007, she received an honorary doctoral degree from Linkoping University, Sweden. After graduate school, she joined the Materials Research Center at General Electric Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY, USA as a materials scientist (1989-1994). She returned to Taiwan in 1994 and established the Advanced Materials Laboratory in CCMS. 

Dr Chen is currently leading a research group of about forty members and her group is specialized in the design and synthesis of low-dimensional nanomaterials and their applications for electronics, optoelectronics, energy and sensing. Dr Chen has 17 patents, 15 invited book chapters or review articles, more than 390 referred papers, with over 13,500 total citations and an H-index of 60. She has organized several professional meetings, including the prestigious appointment as one of the four Meeting Chairs for the Materials Research Society (MRS) 2009 Fall Meeting in Boston, USA. She has served the Editorial Advisory Board of a few journals, including the Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences, Taylor and Francis since 2004 and the Book Series in Energy and Sustainability, established jointly by Cambridge University Press and MRS since 2013. She is a Series Editor for the World Scientific Publishers, on Series in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology since 2015. Most recently, Dr Chen was elected as a Member of the Board of Directors for the MRS, USA (3-yr term, starting from January, 2017) and the Commission on Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter (C.10), International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (3yr-term, 2018-2020).

Dr Chen has received numerous domestic awards and honors, including the Academia Sinica Outstanding Young Scholar Research Award (2000), Fellow of the Physics Society of Taiwan (2006), twice the National Science Council Outstanding Research Award (2007 and 2010-2013), the Outstanding Scholar Foundation Award (2011-2015), the Ho Chin-Tui Outstanding Scholar Award in Materials Science (2012), and most recently, the Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science (2017). In addition, she received international honors, such as the International Federation of Inventors' Association Lady Prize (2009), a Laureate of the 22nd Khwarizmi International Award, Iran (2009), a Fellow of the MRS, USA (2010), and the Acharya Vinova International Award in Materials Science and Technology, VBRI, India (2013). Most recently, she was elected as an Academician of Asia Pacific Academy of Materials (2015).