Feng Chen is currently a Professor at School of Physics, Shandong University, China. He is now also with State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University. He serves as the Dean of School of Physics, Shandong University since January 2013. He is also the Chair of the Committee of Academic Degree of School of Physics and a member of Standing Committee of Academic Degrees, Shandong University.

He received the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Science (PhD) from Shandong Normal University in 1997 and Shandong University in 2002, respectively. After he finished his doctoral dissertation he stayed at Shandong University as a Lecturer. Afterwards, he spent 2 years at Clausthal University of Technology, Germany, from 2003 to 2005, as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow. He became an Associate Professor and Professor at Shandong University in 2004 and 2006, respectively.

His research interests include optical waveguides, lasers, laser-matter interactions, nonlinear optics, etc. Particularly, he is very active in the scientific community related to optical waveguides in optical materials produced by ultrafast lasers and energetic ion beams. He has more than 200 papers published in peer-reviewed journals, and holds 5 patents. He receives a number of awards and honors from diverse organizations, such as the Ministry of Education, China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Central Government of China, for his contributions on ion beam modification of materials, optics and photonics. Currently, he leads a research group working on optical waveguides, lasers, nonlinear optics, and other related topics. He has close collaboration with more than 30 research groups world widely.

Feng Chen is a Fellow of Institute of Physics (IOP), UK, a Senior Member of Optical Society of America (OSA), a Director Board Member of Chinese Physical Society and Chinese Society of Nuclear Physics, and a member of SPIE. In 2014, he was elected to be the President of Physical Society of Shandong Province. He also serves an Associate Editor of Optical Engineering (since 2010), an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (since 2015), a subcommittee member of CLEO: Light-Matter Interactions and Materials Processing, and an active reviewer for about 40 peer-reviewed scientific journals. In addition, he is a member of Review Panel of Department of Mathematics and Physics, NSFC. He also serves as an international Project Proposal Reviewer for Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), and Australian Research Council (ARC).

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