Long-Qing Chen is Hamer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He received his BS degree from Zhejiang University, MS degree from SUNY at Stony Brook, and PhD degree from MIT, all in Materials Science and Engineering. He joined the faculty at Penn State in 1992.

He has published over 400 papers in the area of computational microstructure evolution and multiscale modeling of metallic alloys, oxides, and energy materials. For his contributions, he has received numerous awards including Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS), American Physical Society (APS), American Society for Metals (ASM), ONR Young Investigator Award, University Faculty Scholar Medal and Distinguished Professor at Penn State, Guggenheim Fellowship, ASM Materials Research Silver Medal, TMS EMPMD Distinguished Scientist Award, and the 2014 MRS Materials Theory Award.