Liu Chen 陳 騮 Election Year 2022 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California,
Irvine, California 92697 USA Tel: (949)414-5949 / Fax: (949)824-2197
Current Positions
Emeritus Professor at Above Scale and Research Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine
Education
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University (1962-1966)
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington (1967-1969)
Ph.D. in EE and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, California (1969-1972)
Professional Experience
Member of Technical Staff,Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey (1972-1974)
Research Associate, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (1974-1975)
Research Staff,Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (1975-1976)
Research Physicist, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (1976-1982)
Lecturer with Rank of Associate Professor,Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (1979-1982)
Principal Research Physicist, Plasma Physics Laboratory,Princeton University (1982-1993)
Lecturer with Rank of Professor, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University (1982-1993)
Visiting Miller Research Professorship, University of California at Berkeley (1986-1987)
Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Irvine (1993-2006)
Professor at Above Scale, Department of Physics & Astronomy, UC, Irvine (2006-2012)
Emeritus Professor at Above Scale and Research Professor, Department of Physics &Astronomy,
UC, Irvine (2012-Present)
Visiting Professor, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Kyoto University (2003)
Visiting Chair Professor, Department of Physics, Zhejiang University (2006-Present)
Visiting Kuo-Ting Chair Professor, Department of Physics, National Central University (2007-Present)
Associate Editor, Physics of Fluids (1985-1988)
Member, Editorial Board, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (2008-2014)
Member, Editorial Board, Springer Book Series on Plasma Science and Technology (2017-Present)
Specialties
Plasma Physics and Space Physics
Awards and Honors
Fellow, American Physical Society (1981)
Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research, American Physical Society (2004)
Hannes Alfvén Prize, European Physical Society (2008). The highest honor of EPS for a plasma physicist.
Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Sciences (2009)
Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2011)
James Clerk Maxwell Prize, American Physical Society (2012). The highest honor of APS for a plasma physicist.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Prize, Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (2019). The highest honor of AAPPS for a plasma physicist.