the Chinese Summer School for Plasma Physics. In 2007, Chen initiated the Cross-Strait Symposium on the Fusion Energy and Plasma Science. Chen served, from 1997 to 2016, as the Founding Chairman of Foundation of Shih-Tung Tsai Award for Plasma Physics. Chen was appointed as an Honorary Research Professor at Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in 1990, Visiting Kuang-Piu Chair Professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, in 2004, and Visiting Kuo-Ting Chair Professor at National Central University, Zhongli, Taiwan, in 2007. From 2006 to 2016, Chen served as the founding director of the Institute for Fusion Theory and Simulation (IFTS) at Zhejiang University. In 2016, Chen became the director emeritus. Chen has also published a graduate textbook Waves and Instabilities in Plasmas (World Scientific Publication Co., 1987), and nurtured generations of graduate students and postdocs worldwide. Honors and awards 1981, Fellow, American Physical Society 2004, John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research, from the American Physical Society 2008, Hannes Alfvén Prize, from the European Physical Society 2009, Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Sciences 2011, Fellow, American Geophysical Union 2012, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics, from the American Physical Society 2019, Subrahmanyan Chandresekhar Prize, from the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies 2022, Academician, Academia Sinica References External links Information about Prof. Liu Chen 1946 births Living people 21st-century American physicists Chinese emigrants to the United States National Taiwan University alumni Princeton University faculty University of California, Berkeley alumni University of California, Irvine faculty Academic staff of Zhejiang University Scientists from Hangzhou Fellows of the American Physical Society American plasma physicists Members of Academia Sinica