Long-Qing Chen is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University under the short-term 1000-plan program.  He has been a guest Professor of Physics at the Beijing University of Science and Technology since 2004. He received his B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University in China in 1982.  After spending one year as an assistant instructor at Zhejiang University, he went to the United States in 1983 and received his M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook 1985 and a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1990.  After a two-year post-doc appointment at Rutgers University with Professor Armen G. Khachaturyan, he joined the faculty at Penn State in 1992. He teaches undergraduate thermodynamics of materials and graduate kinetics of materials processes and also co-teaches a course in computational materials science.  His main research interest is developing multiscale computational models for predicting microstructure evolution in materials using a combination of atomistic/first-principles calculations and phase-field methods.  In particular, he is interested in microstructure evolution during phase transformations, grain growth, Ostwald ripening, ferroelectric and multiferroic domain switching, and coupled ionic/electronic transport in electrochemical systems.  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.  Professor Chen has published over 300 authored or co-authored papers (H-index = 49, Number of Citations ~8500) and 1 patent and co-edited 3 books in the area of computational materials science of microstructures and properties.  He has given more than 200 invited talks including 6 at the Gordon Research Conferences.  His current and former graduate students have received more than 40 awards including Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold and Silver Medal Awards, American Ceramic Society Graduate Excellence in Materials Science Awards, Acta Materialia best student paper award, Penn State Materials Research Institute best Ph.D. thesis research award, TMS Young Leader Award, etc.  Professor Chen received numerous awards for his work including ONR Young Investigator Award (1995), NSF special research creativity award (1999), Wilson Award for Excellence in Research from his college (2000), University Faculty Scholar Medal in Engineering at Penn State (2003), Outstanding Overseas Young Scholar by the Chinese Natural Science Foundation (2004) and Changjiang Chair Professorship by the Chinese Ministry of Education (2004) both at Beijing University of Science and Technology, Guggenheim Fellowship (2005), Royal Society Kan Tong Po Fellowship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2005), ASM Materials Research Silver Medal (2006), American Physical Society Fellowship (2008), Materials Science and Engineering Departmental Teaching Award of Students’ Choice (2010), and TMS EMPMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award (2011).