Li-Chyong Chen
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Harvard University (PhD)
Li-Chyong Chen | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 12, 1959 Taipei, Taiwan |
| Alma mater | National Taiwan University (BS) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied physics |
| Institutions | National Taiwan University |
| Thesis | Disordered quasicrystal (1989) |
Li-Chyong Chen (Chinese: 林麗瓊; pinyin: Lín Lìqióng; born March 12, 1959) is a Taiwanese applied physicist. She is a professor of physics at National Taiwan University, where she is a distinguished research fellow at the Center for Condensed Matter Sciences and the director of the Center of Atomic Initiative for New Materials.
Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 12, 1959, the youngest of eight children.[1] Her father was a businessman and her mother was a homemaker. Chen was raised in a suburb of Taipei and graduated from Taipei First Girls' High School.[1]
After high school, Chen graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in physics in 1981. She then earned her Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University in 1989.[2] Her doctoral dissertation, completed under applied scientist Frans Spaepen, was titled, "Disordered quasicrystal".[3] Her graduate professors at Harvard also included materials scientist David Turnbull.[1]
