Gui-Qiang George Chen#
| Membership Number: | 6099 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/gui-qiang.chen |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5146-3839 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - present Director, Oxford Centre for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (OxPDE), University of Oxford, UK
- 2014 - present Director, EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Applications, University of Oxford, UK
- 2009 - present Statutory Professor in the Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (PDE Chair) & Professorial Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford, UK
- 2008 - 2009 Senior Fellow, Centre for Advanced Study, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Norway
- 2003 & 2014 Member, Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1994 - present Associate Professor (1994–96), Full Professor (1996–2010) & Adjunct Professor (2010-Present), Northwestern University, USA
- 1994 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- 1990 - 1991 & 2011 Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), University of California-Berkeley, USA
- 1989 - 1999 Assistant Professor of Mathematics (1989–94) & Adjunct Appointment (1994–99), University of Chicago, USA
- 1987 - 1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Entropy analysis
- Weak convergence methods
- Nonlinear partial differential equations of mixed type
- Measure-theoretical analysis
- Analysis of partial differential equations
- Mathematical physics
- Free boundary problems
- Nonlinear analysis
- Mathematical theory of shock waves and other nonlinear waves
- Hyperbolic conservation laws
Honours and Awards
- 2020 (elected) Fellow, European Academy of Sciences (EURASC), Belgium
- 2017 (elected) Fellow, American Mathematical Society (AMS), USA
- 2014 (elected) Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), UK
- 2013 - 2014 Turner-Kirk Fellow, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2012 (elected) Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), USA
- 2011 The Analysis of Partial Differential Equations Prize, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, USA
- 2009 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, Royal Society, UK
- 2008 The 2008 DiPerna Memorial Lectures in Mathematics, University of California-Berkeley, USA
- 2007 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow, Germany
- 1991 - 1997 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, USA
- 1998 The 1998 State Natural Sciences Award, China
- 1989 - 1991 Argonne-University of Chicago Fellow in Mathematics, USA
- 1988 The Chinese Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics, China
